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TIL the NFL has only suspended first round draft picks 3 times - Tom Brady was associated with each of them.

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8aW6P TIL that Czar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of England got large dragon tattoos on their arms while they were touring Japan. The two monarchs, first cousins, went on to lead their respective nations in WWI.
16xa8 TIL the writers of Total Recall tried adapting The Minority Report into its sequel, depicting Quaid as the head of an organization that uses mutants with precognition abilities to predict and stop crimes before they happen. It was reworked into a standalone film after their company’s bankruptcy.
8ag9P TIL the night sky is different is the southern hemisphere. Also the moon is upside down?
PY5JJ TIL that Major League Baseball is the second-highest-grossing sports league in the world, only slightly behind the NFL
0Zkj TIL that in 1975, the Food and Drug Administration ruled that Pringles cannot legally call themselves “Potato chips” because they’re not made from sliced potatoes. Also, in the UK, the company tried to argue that Pringles weren’t chips (“crisps” in the UK) because chips are subject to a 17.5% VAT