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TIL that 78% of NFL players are broke within 2 years of retirement

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v1r8 TIL In the Bible, Adam is not banished from Eden for eating the fruit of knowledge: he is banished in case he eats the fruit of ANOTHER forbidden tree, which will make him immortal. Notice also multiple Gods are referenced in the passage.
EEyw TIL Panarin’s Map was a prediction by a Russian professor that the United States would break up into four separate republics due to internal strain and external pressure. (Map #11)
xv1w TIL the flavour “Blackcurrant” is largely unknown to people in The United States, due to a ban on the berry in the early 1900s.
Yo67 TIL Keurig pod inventor regrets having invented it and doesn’t own one.
R5LKw TIL In 2001, a Yakuza mob boss named Tadamasa Goto gave a $100,000 donation to UCLA. In exchange, they gave him a liver transplant, allowing him to jump the queue. That same year, 186 people in the Los Angeles area died while waiting for a liver transplant. The FBI was also involved.