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TIL that the NFL sent a cease and desist order to an Indiana Church in 2007 for charging admission to a Super Bowl party that was showing the game on a TV larger than 55 inches thus infringing on the NFL’s copyright laws.

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neEdd TIL some plants that relied on extinct animals to disperse their seeds now rely on rodents, who will bury them. The seeds travel further when other rodents steal them, and bury them again, and again, and again, etc.
J1vN1 TIL the fictional languages in the Game of Thrones series are fully complete languages. Of all the actors that had to speak one or more of them, the person that portrayed the Grey Worm character was considered the best/most talented. He was skilled enough to speak like a natural native speaker.
4Leg TIL that Hubble has found a double Einstein ring, where light from one galaxy is curved around another galaxy to form a halo
oBo1K TIL of the Magic Roundabout, the “most complex intersection” in the world.
YWgW TIL NASA stated that the use of nuclear power saved an average of over 1.8 million lives between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution though reduced coal usage.