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TIL Football has roughly 11 minutes of actual play time.

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jNaGp TIL that the sounds we hear in nature documentaries,including popular ones like Planet Earth II,are almost always created by Foley artists in studios with commonplace objects.Eg.Magnetic film tape are used to create the sound of a spider walking and a slinky to make the web shooting sounds.
4Wvw TIL that to be certified as “bear-resistant”, a container needs to survive a 60-minute mauling by a grizzly bear
wLyy8 TIL that Regis Philbin holds the world record for most hours on U.S. television: between 1958 and 2011, he racked up 16,746.50 hours in front of the camera--an average of one hour per day for 52 years
oDAr TIL that even though coins and currency are legal tender, no private business, individual, or governmental agency is required to accept them as payment in the United States
vRvR TIL Australia has a tree so toxic that just touching its leaves can kill a person, or even a horse