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TIL that taxpayer money is used by the military to pay NFL teams to honor them.

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0wagN TIL about the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox, an endangered megabat species that has a wingspan of up to 1.7m (5.6 feet).
5rlD TIL There is a Christian theme park in Argentina. With a robot jesus. That rises from the dead every hour.
yQjYw TIL about Special Forces intel officer COL James N. Rowe who was a POW in the Vietnam War. Rowe spent 62 months in captivity, battled numerous diseases, solved engineering problems to disguise he was an intel officer, and escaped via helicopter by over-powering the guards.
GPKG TIL a man named Jerry Gretzinger has been drawing a map of an imaginary world for over 50 years. He draws from a deck of cards each morning to decide the fate of his hand-drawn world, which is over 2000 square feet in size.
R7811 TIL that the Adirondack forest state park in New York State is the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States, at over 6 million acres. It is larger in size than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon National Park combined.