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TIL that Goldman Sachs, the investment banking firm, specialize in helping NFL teams build new stadiums with public money for private gain, including the upcoming Carson stadium to host the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders as they move to Los Angeles

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7rEdZ TIL that Einstein described quantum entanglement as "spuckhafte ferwirklung" or "spooky action at a distance" because it contradicted his Theory of Relativity
NRMN TIL a man almost went to jail for child porn on his work issued laptop. He only got off after they found that the PC visited as many as 40 child porn sites a minute even while he was nowhere near it.
J1KA8 TIL Galileo's middle finger is on display in Florence
7v8b TIL of the Bald Knobbers, a vigilante group from Missouri who killed and arrested members of the KKK and the Confederacy while wearing hooded horned masks at night
yQNdp TIL in 1998, during a soccer game in the DR Congo a lightning strike killed all 11 members of a soccer team while everyone on the opposing team survived unscathed.