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TIL Only one NFL player has died on the field: Chuck Hughes in 1971. The game continued with a silent crowd

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9wVGr TIL 87 percent of teens in the USA have an ‌iPhone‌, while 88 percent expect an iPhone‌ to be their next phone according to a survey from investment firm Piper Sandler.
dXR7 TIL a $50 million titanium mesh protects an uninhabited rock in the South Pacific from erosion.
AQol TIL there are some women who remove their pinky toes in order to fit into high heels
6EAg7 TIL Gary Gygax's wife was convinced he was having an affair so she followed him to a dimly lit basement and burst into the room only to find him and his friends hunched over hand drawn maps. Gary would go on to invent the role playing game "Dungeons and Dragons"
JY9D8 TIL: Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine devised a system roughly analogous to a dialysis machine, called BrainEx, that restores circulation and oxygen flow to a dead brain. Using BrainEx, they restored restored cellular function in 32 pig brains that had been dead for over four hours.