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TIL NFL players pee "all over the sideline in every game, into cups, on the ground, in towels, behind the bench, in their pants, everywhere"

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QNK76 TIL that the deepest building in Europe is located in Portugal. It's inside "Quinta da Regaleira", and it's the inverted tower, a building that is 27 meters underground and consists of 9 levels.
VBRr0 TIL that luxury department store Neiman Marcus gets 40% of its sales from 2% of its customers
NXVWb TIL that a riot broke out on St Scholastica Day, 10 February 1355, when two students from the University of Oxford complained about the quality of wine served to them in the Swindlestock Tavern. Around 30 townsfolk were killed, as were up to 63 members of the university.
5pjB TIL of Berthe Mayne, a Belgian singer who claimed to her family to have survived the sinking of the Titanic, traveling 1st class under an alias as the mistress of a young Canadian millionaire. No one believed her until after her death, when her belongings and correspondence corroborated the story.
9wnED TIL: Saudi Arabia produced a school textbook in which Yoda was superimposed on a photo of the late King Faisal.