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TIL Notre Dame Football isn't variant of football with different rules called Notre Dame for some reason but NBC coverage of standard college football games involving University of Notre Dame. Disclaimer: I'm not from the US and my knowledge of football ends with knowing what NFL and Super Bowl are.

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rRG6d TIL the most successful and feared allied spy of WWII, Virginia Hall, was an American woman with a prosthetic leg. She escaped France on foot through the Pyrenees mts, re-entered before D Day, and organized havoc behind the Nazi lines.
grQdX TIL There was a real life white sperm whale which inspired the famous book Moby Dick, his name was Mocha Dick and he terrorized whalers off the coast of Chile in the early 19th century.
Eg67X TIL: A suicide bomber was thwarted by an Afghan stray dog which barked and snarled at the man, which caused him to prematurely detonate at the entrance. The dog was then flown to the US and appeared on Oprah and was adopted. However, she was captured and euthanized by mistake at an animal shelter.
gYPW TIL that a bank robber covered his face with lemon juice because he believed it would make his face invisible to surveillance cameras. This led to a Cornell psychology study that showed unskilled people mistakenly assess their abilities to be much higher than they really are.
P1QJw TIL that during WWII, the Japanese battleship Mutsu suddenly exploded at anchor and sank. The Japanese navy investigated and found that the sinking was probably caused by a suicidally disgruntled crewman.