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TIL that the recently built 5 billion dollar SoFI Stadium in Inglewood, CA. has no air conditioning, it instead relies on the sea breeze to cool the stadium down

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rRa11 TIL of Jennifer Teege, a half-black woman that didn’t learn until she was 38 that her grandfather had been Amon Göth, the sadistic Nazi concentration camp commandant dramatized in Schindler’s List
XEyBR TIL that in 1983, after a mid-air collision, an F-15 pilot continued flying and made a successful emergency landing, only to find out after he landed that he lost the entire right wing in the collision.
4kmAb TIL half-moons on fingernails and toenails (lunala) disappear with age.
kJArB TIL US President Calvin Coolidge was alarmed at the number of turkeys president's were offered on Thanksgiving. He halted the practice for a short while until 1925 and was then offered a live raccoon 'Rebecca'. He refused to eat her and kept her as a pet at the White House
9wMKM TIL in 1999 the pizza chain Pizza Hut asked 50 U.S. governors to name their favourite books from childhood. The then-governor of Texas, Bush, named The Very Hungry Caterpillar, despite having been of college age at the time of its publication.