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TIL Teddy Roosevelt helped save American Football by urging rules changes to make the game safer after 19 players died during the 1905 season.

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KO1a4 TIL about HumanLight, a secular alternative to Christmas that celebrates values such as humanity and hope. You celebrate the day with some component of your choosing that celebrates these values.
nMgB TIL of Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, who saved President Ronald Reagan’s life in 1981. Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service by the 1939 movie ‘Code of the Secret Service’… which starred a young Ronald Reagan.
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