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TIL that Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor would hire prostitutes and send them to his opponents’ hotel rooms the night before a game to try to tire them out

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5YRV9 TIL: An FBI file says (pg.34) a "clairvoyant" (name redacted) claimed the space shuttle Challenger explosion was the work of NASA-employed "local conspirators" in security whose addresses she gave. Checks found "none of the current security employees, or recent dismissals" lived in the general area.
9av6 TIL Russia has to bomb their rivers every winter to prevent dangerous flooding caused by ice dams.
V05k TIL ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ by Van Morrison is about an interracial relationship and was originally titled 'Brown Skinned Girl’
9YB9B TIL about Kit Musgrave, a Royal Navy officer who survived the torpedoing of three different British cruisers within one hour on one very bad day in 1914. He survived WW I. He re-enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1939 as Britain entered WW II. He again survived and lived another 50 years.
xV4Ak TIL Apparently Easter Island's Heads Have Bodies