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TIL NFL player Brian Bosworth outraged Denver Broncos fans, then sold 10,000 of them 15$ T-shirts that said “Ban the Boz”, without them knowing that he was selling them.

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b9r17 TIL there’s a single word for spirits/angels/deities whose job is to escort the dead to the afterlife. “Psychopomp”
69E58 TIL the cruise ship MS Oasis of the Seas gets a gas mileage of 437 gallons per mile (gpm), or 12 feet per gallon
9Y5b6 TIL that the movie Caddyshack was filmed at a golf course in Davie, Florida. The explosions that take place during the climax of the film were reported at the nearby Fort Lauderdale airport by an incoming pilot, who suspected that a plane had crashed.
6EZVW TIL in 1985, MTV ran a contest based on John Mellencamp's song Pink Houses, where they gave away a pink house. Unfortunately, the house was on a toxic waste dump in Indiana. Not wanting to poison his fans, they were forced to buy another house. Also included was a garage full of Hawaiian Punch.
xKVb TIL Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels, invented the girls’ name Vanessa.