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TIL there is a High School football coach who never punts and always does onside kicks. He has won 4 state titles doing this.

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J1ryB TIL Japan has an amusement park which recreates a Dutch town with canals, windmills, gardens and architecture
vPvrj TIL National Band & Tag used to manufacture rose-colored Chicken Glasses to help stop chickens from pecking at each other. The sight of blood intensified the pecking instinct in chickens, so the rose-colored lenses made the red disappear, thus reducing cannibalis
1aLa7 TIL "The father of modern chemistry", Antoine Lavoisier, was accused of defrauding the French government and convicted to be executed via guillotine. His judge responded to the appeal to save his life by saying, "The Republic needs neither scholars nor chemists."
1akL7 TIL that a unit of Donkey Power is a thing equalling 250 watts which is about a third of a Horse Power
xDrb TIL a cat named Tibbles once started bringing dead birds to a lighthouse that were discovered to be a new species, the Stephens Island wren. They went extinct shortly after and Tibbles the cat was accused of being the only single living creature to eradicate a species.