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TIL in 2003 a high school football player set a new record for career passing yardage; he later found out that both teams' coaches had conspired in his last game to ensure he'd beat the record, and he requested that the yardage from that game be expunged from his record, relinquishing the record

W7wM8 TIL a man bought all the spare B-2 windshields and used them in his daughter’s tree house. The USAF had to buy them back to replace a damaged Spirit windshield.
vrV7 Green Day had the master tapes of one of their studio albums stolen, so they decided to abandon their initial work and start over. The resulting album? American Idiot.
MeRpW TIL of Kathy Hobbs, a girl who had a premonition that she wouldn’t live to be 16. She reached the age and relaxed, making plans for her future. 3 months later, she was abducted and killed. She’d written letters to her family, dated 1 month before her birthday, telling them how much she loved them.
J1pJm TIL Historians hoped to create a permanent indoor exhibit at Dallas Love Field to commemorate Johnson being sworn in as President there after JFK assassination. Plans came to a mysterious halt before the 50th anniversary in 2013. It is not fully understood why, the director refuses to discuss it
YgQv TIL studies show that when traditional intersections were replaced with modern roundabouts in the USA, there was a 37% reduction in overall collisions, 75% reduction in injury collisions, 90% reduction in fatality collisions, and 40% reduction in pedestrian collisions.