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TIL that when Fox Sports president David Hill introduced a score bug as part of its NFL coverage, he received a death threat from an irate viewer, with a specific emphasis on him being a "foreigner"

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oBO5R TIL A man in Michigan whose house was set to be demolished, switched house numbers with his neighbor, so that they ended up demolishing the wrong house. The crews demolished the wrong house.
Lr1r TIL The Japanese Army used 3,500 tons of snow to create a Star Wars mural
J1ww4 TIL that the current world speed record for a commercial train on steel wheels is held by the French TGV at 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), achieved on 3 April 2007.
oRKKE TIL Lobsters use their feet to taste. The lobster's equivalent of human taste buds are the tiny bristles found inside its tiny pincers. In the meantime, one of the three stomachs of lobsters has teeth.
QNg8E TIL George Washington's statue in London has soil from Virginia under it because Washington said in 1799 "I shall never step on English soil again"