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TIL that the university of vermont hosted ice bowling in their stadium. it had rubber balls, hockey masks, and slippery floors

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yMYw TIL that the most expensive fossil ever sold was Sue the T Rex, a 40-foot 80% complete specimen discovered in South Dakota in 1990. She was sold at auction to Chicago’s Field Museum for $7,600,000.00.
R7R09 TIL Most Federal Enforcement Agencies send trainees to the Holocaust Museum so trainees understand what can happen if they become complicit in authoritarian type orders
6wVJ TIL that all the female voices in South Park were originally voiced by Mary Kay Bergman who committed suicide in 1999
jNN1X TIL Conan O'Brien required reconstructive surgery on his nose after a street gang, “beat the shit out of [him].” The damage was so severe that, when asked the extent of the damage, Conan’s doctor said, “Broken? Good god, man, it’s a bag of bones!”
JlE1 TIL that typically a Boeing 747 carries 416 passengers, but when a group of Ethiopian refugees were evacuated in 1991 they managed to fit 1,122 people on board. They originally planned to board 760 people, but got to 1,122 because “ the passengers were so light”.