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TIL that soccer makes more money than football, basketball, baseball, golf, tennis and hockey combined.

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pYZmQ TIL that the island of Ocracoke, North Carolina was the location where the pirate Blackbeard died on November 1718.
e0AJ5 TIL; the dingy blue lights in some public toilets is to prevent addicts from injecting heroin as the blue light makes it much more difficult to see veins
ZYOG TIL In 1518, a “dancing plague” struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
VM9pm TIL about the Darwin's frog. The males of this small Chilean frog swallow the embryos to finish the tadpoles development inside their vocal sac. The "pregnant dad" does not eat for around six weeks until the froglets move to the mouth and get out
k7Am TIL: That Adult Swim isn’t part of Cartoon Network, but two separate networks that share the channel space.