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TIL Football has roughly 11 minutes of actual play time.

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nWBJY TIL The passenger vehicle occupant fatality rate at nighttime is about three times higher than the daytime rate. ... The data shows a higher percentage of passenger vehicle occupants killed in speeding-related crashes at nighttime.
gd0b TIL of a group of people who believe they slid from a different timeline into ours. Among other things, they remember Mandela dying in the 80s and New Zealand being located north of Australia, not south.
DQnrg TIL although we live in a 3D world, we can only see 2 dimensions. The brain uses information about the difference between the 2 images from each eye to work out the third dimension which is depth.
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