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TIL the NFL is classified as a ‘Not-For-Profit’ organization for tax purposes

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yQDNX TIL country singer Charley Pride played professional baseball in the Negro Leagues. At one point he and another player were traded to another team for a bus.
Me5Xm TIL that Burger King launched a $40 million ad campaign in November 1985 called "Where's Herb?" The idea was to find a character named Herb who'd never been to BK. Other chains pointed out that if Herb wasn't at BK, it meant he probably liked other chains' burgers more. BK profits fell 40% in 1986.
R71gw TIL an almost 80 year old man fought the British in 1775, survived being stabbed multiple times and went on to live well into his 90s.
ENeo TIL Philadelphia cream cheese is named for a village in upstate New York, not the famous Pennsylvania city.
J1KZv TIL the Missouri River, not the Mississippi, is actually the longest river in America