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TIL in 1909, while investigating rumors that a stone had fallen from the sky already covered in human writing, American explorer Frederick Burnham discovered an 8-foot long boulder featuring ancient inscriptions which remain untranslated.

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R7mr7 TIL: During the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the primary target for the Japanese were battleships, not carriers.
7KZr TIL that actor Chuck Connors (“Old Yeller,” “Soylent Green,” “The Rifleman”) once played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and was also the first NBA player to shatter a backboard — in 1946
ANQea TIL that Madison Square Garden once held a six-day long roller skating race in 1885 that ended up killing two of the contestants. The highest-placing racers used ammonia soaked rags to keep themselves from passing out and ended up skating for over 1000 miles each by the end of the competition.
jQmM TIL that only once in history has one submarine deliberately sunk another submerged submarine
MjrA TIL during 19th century construction of Paris’s underground sewers, workers found lost medieval dungeons, jewels, and the skeleton of an orangutan that had previously escaped from the zoo.