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TIL there is an entire college athletic conference composed entirely of Penn State satellite campuses.

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Jvam TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Character. “..Her mother was in tears, just crying. She said that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.”
7rQXr TIL in 2004 a football player got his wedding ring caught on a metal fence while celebrating a goal, ripping his finger off. He was then penalized with a yellow card for wasting time when officials were searching for his finger.
8aRPL TIL that singer Lorde has sound-to-color synesthesia, a unique condition where sound blends with sight to create certain colors. This greatly contributed to the creative process on "Melodrama", where she wrote music to the "violets and blues" that appear on the album's cover
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