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TIL Football has roughly 11 minutes of actual play time.

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xBpD TIL the world’s first fully-painted, feature-length film is an animated movie about the life of Vincent van Gogh made up of 56,800 stop-motion paintings. Years in the making, it is scheduled to open this summer on the 125th anniversary of his death.
4kaw6 TIL that in France it is legal to marry a partner posthumously.
7myP TIL School clerk Antoinette Tuff encountered a man carrying an AK-47 assault rifle into an elementary school in Georgia and spent an hour convincing him not to hurt anybody. In the end, he didn’t.
VMpop TIL Australian prime minister Harold Holt loved swimming and diving so much that when his press secretary expressed concern about this he said, "Look, what are the odds that a PM would drown or be eaten by a shark?". In 1967, Holt went for a swim in the ocean and was never seen again.
M7y80 TIL of caudal regression syndrome, a rare birth defect that causes regression of development of the lower spine and limbs.