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TIL Football and Football are both called such because neither is played on horseback.

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d8BjQ TIL that when Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and D&D, they hired most of TSR's staff and moved them all to Seattle. They helped find new homes, hired movers, and helped those still paying rent in WI and WA. One said Wizards was doing everything but putting them on their backs and carrying them.
AL1x TIL the winner of the $1,000,000 in Mcdonald’s Monopoly doesn’t recieve it as a lump sum; they get an annual cheque for $50,000 for 20 years
R7XQ9 TIL the average freight train is about 1 to 1¼ miles in length (90 to 120 rail cars). When it's moving at 55 miles an hour, it can take a mile or more to stop after the locomotive engineer fully applies the emergency brake.
Y7XOA TIL that whale sharks have 'dermal denticles' (basically small teeth) all over their bodies (like most sharks) but also on their actual eyeballs
dmkr TIL that whenever Kevin Bacon is at a party he gives the DJ $20 NOT to play ‘Footloose.’ “People expect me to start doing flips like a trained monkey. I try to avoid that.”