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TIL High school and college basketball players are forbidden from wearing jerseys with the numbers 6-9 on them bc refs need to be able to signal their numbers with one hand.

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78EBO TIL that Von Gammon's death from a head injury while playing football almost led to the State of Georgia banning football. The state legislature had passed a bill that would've banned football and it was only when Gammon's mother intervened that the Governor vetoed the bill.
x6LLD TIL that Harry Redknapp once brought a fan on to play for West Ham in a preseason friendly.
RNOQ TIL PubMed, a free database available to the public containing huge amounts new science studies, papers, and research, is slowly dying due to federal budget cuts. They are currently on a stand still of posting new data due to staff limitations.
W61X TIL McDonalds has closed down in six countries (Bermuda, Barbados, Bolivia, Jamaica, Iceland and Montenegro)
ADL6o TIL In 2007, Odyssey Moon was the first team to register for the Lunar X Prize competition, an event that hopes to rekindle the efforts of humans to return to the moon. The team's goals were to build and deploy a robotic lunar lander