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TIL that part of the reason Eli Manning refused to play for the San Diego Chargers is because his father Archie talked to Ryan Leaf's father before the 2004 NFL draft and was told that the Chargers did not help Ryan with his personal problems.

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gMBg4 TIL that Parmesan cheese is not vegetarian due to the inclusion of animal rennet, an enzyme extracted from calves’ stomachs which used to set the cheese
p8vVe TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.
Q1nL TIL: The Origin Of “Piss Poor” was that urine was used to tan animal skins so family’s would pee in a pot and sell it to the tannery. “Don’t have a pot to piss in” were the extremely poor who couldn’t even afford a piss pot for the tannery.
yQmoJ TIL It is believed the first Japanese citizen to set foot in America was Oguri Jukichi, captain of a freighter that was sailing off the Japanese coast in 1813 when a storm blew it deep into the Pacific Ocean. Two years later, they were rescued off the coast of California and returned to Japan.
x6y7w TIL Big Boy was more a chain of chains; and "Several of them also held Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises and sold that chicken in their Big Boy restaurants"