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TIL 14 of the world’s 25 largest stadiums belong to American college football teams.

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rRD9y TIL that Boxing star Tommy Morrison at the age of 13 got a fake ID and started fighting in “tough man” competitions in which you needed to be 21 to enter. He only lost one of those fights.
b6Xd0 TIL Elizabeth Webber Harris remains the only woman to be awarded a Victoria cross medal. In 1920 a Royal Warrant allowed for women serving in the Armed Forces to be formally awarded the VC. However, as of December 2021, no woman has been awarded an official VC other than Harris.
9YojX TIL that a Hawaiian folk story told of how a goddess named Kohe-kohe-lele, meaning "Kapo with the flying vagina", saved her sister from being assaulted by a half-man, half-hog fertility god named Kampua'a by detaching her vagina and luring an intrigued Kampua'a to the edge of the country.
OR9X TIL of the Georgia Guidestones. The mysterious monoliths are inscribed in 12 languages with 10 guidelines, including “keeping world population below 500 million”
6EE8J TIL Taco Bell calls its food prep workers "Food Champions"