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TIL ESPN once caught and acknowledged a girl giving her boyfriend a handjob at a UTEP college football game.

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a8VpJ TIL that in WW2, a Marine Corps Corsair pilot used his propeller to chew off the tail of an enemy aircraft after his guns jammed, while under fire from the enemy plane's tailgunner. The enemy plane crashed but the Corsair pilot made it back to base, receiving the Navy Cross for his actions.
p8OJ4 TIL that *NSYNC singer JC Chasez’s surname is pronounced Sheh-ZAY, not CHAY-sez.
7rO6b TIL about a guy who disappeared in to the woods for 27 years and survived by committing about 1000 burglaries
DQnEP TIL of the Polavaram Project, a very large Earth-Cum-Rock fill dam that is nearly ready to begin construction in India
GYlAg TIL that the Statue of Liberty cost the French an estimated $250,000 (more than $5.5 million in today’s money). The money came from fundraising efforts such as auctions, a lottery, and boxing matches, both in Europe and the U.S.