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TIL TLC was founded in 1972 with the help of NASA and was an informative and instructional network focused on providing real education via television; it was distributed at no cost by NASA satellite.

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Me4xB TIL humans are the only ones among all primates with chins
WkM8A TIL of Randy, the Guinea Pig that broke into the female enclosure at his Zoo, and impregnated around 100 females in 2014. He then became a father of around 400 babies.
4M8a TIL in 1916, there was a Constitutional amendment proposed that would have put declarations of war to a vote, and those voting for war would be forced to volunteer for military service.
kJ8V5 TIL that John Frizzell, the composer for "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America," made mock Latin phrases for a Gregorian chant when the boys enter a church: "Scrotum agitatio ignormaus genitillus largus hemorrhoidus burnum all day long."
0wmgy TIL In 1919, Fritz Pollard became one of the first African-Americans to play in the NFL.One year¹ after making his debut,Fritz led his Akron Pros to their first ever NFL championship.The next year,Pollard became a player-coach with the same team and in effect became the NFL's first black head coach.