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TIL The most popular sport in Ireland (gaelic football) is a completely amateur sport. The players play in front of 80,000 people and don’t get paid.

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0d6XN TIL that in the 1920's, a man was given 1 year to live by doctors, if he moved to a warm climate. He built a house in Bartow, FL with a lot of unique features and designs, and would go on to live to the 1970's. It has become known as "The Wonderhouse" and become a local tourist attraction.
gM6JA TIL that Billy West, who does the voice of Philip J. Fry's on Futurama among other characters, intentionally made Fry's voice close to his natural voice as a job security measure because it would be more difficult to replace him.
690RY TIL that in the early 1900s in the U.S., human zoos were a thing, where people from indigenous tribes and isolated cultures were put on display for entertainment.
adn0 TIL that while watching a Flip or Flop marathon, a fan and RN reached out to the shows producers telling them that host, Tarek El Moussa, had a nodule on his neck he needed checked out. It turned out to be thyroid cancer and El Moussa was able to get it removed.
899X TIL that the doctor who treated U.S. president James A. Garfield after he was fatally wounded by an assassin’s bullet was named Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss, a doctor whose first name was actually “Doctor.”