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TIL the furthest a verifiable March Madness bracket has stayed perfect was to the Sweet Sixteen round.

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pY8Yp TIL that Nazi Germany operated jet-powered bombers, and that they were the last Luftwaffe planes to fly over the UK.
WkXy9 TIL Gerald Ford used to tell his friends: "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."
W7kkY TIL that banjo player Bela Fleck has been nominated in more Grammy categories than any other musician and won Grammys in bluegrass, country, folk, pop, jazz, classical, and world music categories.
gMlP8 TIL of the Shirime, a japanese spirit that strips naked and flashes its butthole that contains a shiny eye to innocent bystanders
d8l8 TIL Rep. Joe Barton (R–Texas) is against wind energy because “wind is God’s way of balancing heat,” and fears that wind turbines will slow down the wind thus heating up the earth. He also claims wind is a “finite resource.”