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TIL No one really knows where strawberries got their name
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TIL that in 2016, the NFL acquired an exclusive (and secret) radio frequency from the FCC to prevent coaches from getting their play calls and signals intercepted. Only 10 coaches from each team have access to this frequency during games.
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TIL that hitting a punching bag does not produce a cathartic effect: It increases rather than decreases subsequent aggression.
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TIL that Brian May, guitarist for Queen, has a PhD in Astrophysics. He abandoned his thesis work in 1971 to be a musician and went back and completed the thesis in 2007.
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TIL Author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park/Congo/Sphere) was 6'9"
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TIL of math prodigy George Green, who operated a windmill for 20 years. Almost completely self-taught, he could not attend university until almost 40 years old. Green nonetheless graduated from Cambridge as one of the top math students; Einstein later said that he was 20 years ahead of his time.