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TIL that Luke Shaw (Manchester United) has spent 1,528 days (4.2 years) of his football career injured..so far

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a8j5A TIL about the 'Pig War' of 1859, where the only casualty was a single pig. The conflict started when an American settler shot a British pig that was eating his potatoes on the disputed San Juan Islands, almost leading to war between the US and Britain.
oRKBr TIL that sloths can hold their breath up to twice as long as dolphins
n0LG TIL the parents of an 11 year old boy were arrested and had their children temporarily taken away for letting him stay in their front yard alone for 90 minutes.
b96y9 TIL The Trip (1967 movie) by Roger Corman is a movie about LSD, the director took doses to make it. Jack Nicholson who wrote the screenplay was taking it at this time along with two actors in the movie were famous for tripping: Dennis Hooper and Peter Fonda.
Bbwb TIL White-nose syndrome is a disease that severely threatens the U.S. bat population and has killed more than 5.7 million bats