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TIL that NFL teams AZ Cardinals, CLE Browns, CHI Bears, Bal Colts, LA Rams, and SD Chargers had ownerships with links to the mafia during their history.

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Oomma TIL that since 1956 the US Air Force trains falcons. They have 8 main falcons, Ace, Apollo, Cairo, Karena, Nova, Oblio, Zeus, and Ziva
8YOK TIL Snoop Dogg helped hand out 1,500 turkeys to needy Inglewood residents last Thanksgiving; he also stuck around to pose for photos with over 800 people.
7rjPr TIL after executing the royal Romanov family the Cheka gathered up distant relatives and threw them down the same mine shaft they put the royal family. Many people didn't die so they used grenades to finish them off. When that didn't work they put brushwood down the shaft and lit it on fire.
GYDwN TIL that Morgan Freeman's character in "The Shawshank Redemption" was originally an Irish redhead-- meaning that Halle Bailey is not the first African American playing an originally redheaded character.
awAP9 TIL a Scottish woman named Maggie dickson, was sentenced to execution by hanging on 2nd sept. 1724, she survived the hanging and climbed out of her coffin as it was being transported. The courts ruled she was a free woman as the punishment had been carried out. Known after as 'half-hangit maggie'.