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TIL that in 1980, the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that God is not a person

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d8WmK TIL That a soccer/football game in the UK was canceled shortly after it began due to heavy fog, everyone left except goalkeeper Sam Bartram who didn't hear the referee and guarded his goal in silence for 15 minutes before a policeman came and told him of the cancellation.
9YXD TIL ~ During the 2008 Olympics China employed 30 airplanes, 4,000 rocket launchers, and 7,000 anti-aircraft guns to stop rain. Shooting various chemicals into any threatening clouds to shrink rain drops before they reach the stadium. rf#29
ANxga TIL as Collector of the New York Customs House, Chester A Arthur earned more than the president by receiving a percentage of fines through the old moiety system.
x4dD TIL a 4chan prank resulted in VH1’s Save the Music program donating $10,000 to buy musical instruments for Boston’s Horace Mann School for the Deaf.
yOkp TIL that the scene where Aragorn tosses Gimli during the Battle of Helm’s Deep in The Twin Towers film is a joke on the actual sport of “dwarf tossing”