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TIL there have been two at least seperate soccer teams called the Stoners

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GGk1 TIL Tomorrow is the last day Saturday morning cartoons will be aired on broadcast television in America
x6mBo TIL that during the filming of "The African Queen" (1951) on location in Uganda, many of the cast and crew became ill. During the filming of a scene where Katharine Hepburn played an organ, the crew kept a bucket off camera so she could vomit into it between takes
NXQg6 TIL American Civil War-era politician Clement Vallandigham died trying to defend a man accused of murder in a bar, who claimed he had accidentally discharged a pistol. Vallandigham attempted to demonstrate what happened... and accidentally shot himself with the pistol.
awxx0 TIL that 1 in 4 Americans could not answer correctly that the Earth revolves around the sun (npr.org, 2014)
4kXkN TIL that from 2008 to 2014 an IBM employee with a security cleareance leaked the usage of Danish celebrities' credit cards in real-time to tabloid journalists and received a monthly $1500 "paycheck" for his services.