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TIL Lacrosse, as originally played by Native Americans, fielded teams from 100 to 1,000 men, with goals 500 yards to 6 miles apart, with games lasting several days, played sunup to sundown. These games tended to become huge mobs of players swarming the ball and slowly moving it across the field.

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nevL7 TIL the film inside the SR-71’s camera was five inches wide and two miles long. Once a SR-71 returned, the photo-maintenance division removed the film and cut it into 500-foot long segments. Then they would put on surgical gloves and go up and down the lines, inspecting this massive roll of film.
YKRx TIL that for a large amount of time, Michael Jackson owned all the rights to songs written/produce by the Beatles. Also, McCartney and Ono will gain rights to Beatles songs in 2018, and full rights in 2026.
jNvyN TIL Guan Pinghu was a leading player of the guqin or Chinese zither. His recording of "Stream" was included in the Voyager Golden Record, containing music from around the world, which was sent into space by NASA. It is the longest excerpt included on the disc and the only excerpt of Chinese music
7rwjb TIL Spielberg began work on a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind called 'Night Skies' about a family living in a house being attacked by aliens which then split into both E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Poltergeist. In Gremlins, you'll see a theater marquee listing abandoned names for E.T.
GbOE TIL we can’t dispose of nuclear waste in volcanoes because they aren’t hot enough to split uranium’s atomic nuclei and make it's​ radioactivity inert