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TIL that Bo Jackson is the only professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in both baseball and football, and using him in Tecmo Bowl is cheating

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ax8N TIL of the Blood Bikes, a network of UK organisations that consist of volunteer bikers who transport donated blood, breastmilk and organs quickly between hospitals
8WXG TIL for $45, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing will sell you a 5-lb bag full of $10,000 worth of shredded U.S. currency.
5Y4wr TIL that a company providing IP geolocation data assigned 300 million IP addresses to a rural Kansas farmhouse. This led to countless visits by police trying to find missing people, hackers, identity fraudsters and stolen cars.
JY7rQ TIL that, during the filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, up to 1,460 eggs were served to the cast and crew each morning for breakfast.
WkkBX TIL There are still large concrete arrows across the US from the Transcontinental Airway System, which helped pilots prior to radio navigation