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TIL that the NFL set up a committee to falsify information and hide brain damage in its players

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oBvdR TIL In 2014, Youtube star Grumpy Cat earned more money than Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
4XZg TIL that Canadian triathlete Simon Whitfield consoled a little girl who had been crying for him after he crashed, before tending to his injuries.
gMbRy TIL that actress and comedian Katherine Ryan got fired from a college job at Hooters because she wrote "club sandwiches not seals" on the lunch board
4X8Vb TIL that in the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix, Jaguar fitted $300k diamonds to fronts of two of their Formula 1 cars to advertise “Ocean’s Twelve”. One of the cars crashed on the first lap, and the diamond, uninsured due to the nature of the stunt, was, and still remains, lost.
nWN8r TIL about the Shreveport Rate Case, a SCOTUS case that allowed the federal government to regulate intrastate commerce when it is needed to regulate interstate commerce. It was brought against an interstate railway that charged shipping rates that favored Texan cities, a policy mandated by the state.