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TIL In the mid-1970s, a lawyer from Akron, Ohio, wrote the Cleveland Browns football team with a complaint about paper airplanes being tossed around the Stadium. The Browns replied with a letter saying "I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters"

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