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TIL Football has roughly 11 minutes of actual play time.
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TIL that James Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, gave the Peter Pan copyright to Great Ormond Street Hospital, the leading children's hospital in London, which helped support the institution's work for 70 years after his passing
Jao1
TIL Twinkies (Hostess) was bought by Metropoulos and the original Twinkie will be back on the shelves by the middle of July.
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TIL that in 1820, an 80-ton sperm whale attacked and sank the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts). The tragedy attracted international attention, and inspired Herman Melville to write his famous 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
D1myY
TIL about a world view known as Wabi Sabi that appreciates imperfection instead of disparaging it.
GAR9N
TIL That early model M-16s were so prone to jams and malfunctions, mostly due to the failure to ship them with cleaning kits and ammunition which fouled the operating mechanism, that the US military produced a comic book detailing proper field stripping instructions for the weapon.