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TIL before the invention of the American football helmet in the 1890s, players would often grow their hair long because they believed it protected them from head injuries.

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oBLOW TIL sandplay therapy, the playing with sand & objects in a tray, can facilitate a healing process as the unconscious expresses itself in the sand & influences the sand player. The effectiveness of play therapy is comparable to that of psychotherapy
OGAx1 TIL: Besides the normal human sacrifice procedures such as decapitation and heart removal, the Mayans also had an arrow sacrifice. The victim would be painted blue and wore a cap. Their genitals were bled and a white symbol was painted for the archers to shoot until they were filled with arrows.
j66vv TIL during the filming of “Friday the 13th” (1980), the film was shot over multiple locations in New Jersey in the summer of ‘79, one of them being a small town called Blairstown. It turned out that Lou Reed lived next door to the set, and he would sometimes visit & perform on the set of the film.
9wJ9G TIL in 2020, the movie Palm Springs broke the record for the highest sale of a film from the Sundance Festival by exactly $0.69
9YwJX TIL Big Band musician Glenn Miller scored 23 number one hits in just four years which was more than Elvis Presley (18 No. 1 hits) or the Beatles (20 No. 1 hits) managed in their entire careers.