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TIL Football has roughly 11 minutes of actual play time.

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wLYXP TIL NASA found an area on Mars which supposedly has sand dunes that look like Morse code. They have dubbed it “Martian Morse Code”
WkDpL TIL that Paul Revere was captured by the British on his famous midnight ride.
BYRD TIL: There’s an anime and manga in Japan called Saint Young Men, which is about Jesus and Buddha living as roommates in Tokyo while taking a vacation on Earth and attempting to understand Japanese society.
9Y5NG TIL that on May 19th, 1999 when Star Wars: The Phantom Menace released into theaters, an estimated 2.2 million full time employees missed work to watch the film. Costing the US an estimated $293 million dollars from lose of productivity.
b6Rj9 TIL that Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side of the road all in one day