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TIL Football has roughly 11 minutes of actual play time.
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TIL about Kill Haole Day, a day where Native Hawaiians harass non-native Hawaiians
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TIL that pizza was invented in Naples, Italy as an inexpensive food to be consumed quickly. It remained unknown outside of Naples until Italian immigrants brought it to the US in the early 20th Century, where it would take the country by storm after WW2.
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TIL that consuming asparagus affects the smell of urine, but only 22% of the population have the gene to smell it
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TIL that between 1760 and 1860, college riots included Harvard's "Great Butter Rebellion" of 1766, which got the entire sophomore class expelled (some, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, were allowed to return). In Yale riots between 1843 and 1858, students stabbed or shot tutors and firefighters.
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TIL of the Angulo brothers. Six brothers who were locked in their apartment by their father for 14 years. They found a passion in watching, and often reenacting, over 10,000 movies in their free time.