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TIL of the longest tail-back in history — cars moved at 2 miles per day

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oBVLA TIL in 1900s there was a death row inmates baseball team and their executions were dependent on their performance.
78Y4L TIL in 2010 a fan of the University of Alabama football team fatally poisoned several 130 year old oak trees on rival Auburn's campus. Six years later an LSU fan set one of the replacement trees on fire.
rR6y1 TIL Evel Knievel tried to beat a man to death with a baseball bat in 1977 for writing a book that portrayed Knievel as "an immoral person".
BoOW TIL that in the past, to treat an arrow wound cleanly, one would push the arrow through to the other side of the body
EgOYw TIL The last ship sunk by an Iceberg with loss of life was the MS Hans Hedtoft in 1959 during the return leg of her maiden voyage. She sank in 4 hours with the loss of all 95 people aboard.