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TIL that the United States Appeals court ruled that competitive cheerleading is not a sport

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pvaO TIL that JJ Thompson won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that electrons act as particles, while his son GP Thompson won the Nobel Prize for discovering that electrons act as waves.
bXJj TIL seat belts don’t make school buses safer, and may not be worth the added cost, according to NHTSA
Y7Ro7 TIL according to medieval legend the Codex Gigas was created by a monk sentenced to be walled up alive; but to escape death promised to create, in one night, a book with all human knowledge. Near midnight, the desperate monk gave Lucifer his soul to finish the book. Thus, a nickname "Devil's Bible".
ZMOv TIL that Thora Birch was 16 and therefore considered a minor when she shot her nude scene for “American Beauty.” Her parents and child labor board members monitored the shoot.
4XeEg TIL the largest family to perish on the Titanic was the Sage family of Peterborough, England. Mr and Mrs Sage and their nine children all died in the sinking. Only the body of their 13-year-old son was recovered.