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TIL that cheerleading is, by an enormous margin, the most dangerous organized sport in high school and college

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4kyE6 TIL that Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, lost his son, Karl Planck, in 1916 during World War I. Karl, who was serving as a lieutenant in the German army, was killed in the Battle of Verdun by French forces.
jNgaX TIL due to his allergies Ringo Starr has never eaten a pizza or a curry in his life. However, he has starred in a Pizza Hut commercial.
o89W TIL that the band, The Rolling Stones, would never have been formed if Keith Richards and Mick Jagger hadn’t accidentally met at a train station in 1961. Richards struck up a conversation with Jagger about the blues records that he was carrying. The connection was instant and the rest is history.
awJ1b TIL that in a legal battle after the September 11th attacks, the leaseholder of the WTC claimed that he was owed double insurance payments, as each attack was a separate event, but lost in court, in which the jury decided it was actually one attack
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