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TIL that a recent study indicated 87% of former football players exhibit signs of significant brain injury. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy -CVT- has been linked to suicidal behavior, dementia, and erratic mood swings. Players as young as high-school aged were found to be affected.

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698Jm TIL South korea has 52 million people in a similar area to portugal.
KYDJw TIL about The Cure for Insomnia, an experimental movie released in 1987 by a man named John Henry Timmis IV, that held the Guinness World Record for longest film at around 87 hours. It consists of an artist reading a 4,080 page poem, and there are believed to be no copies left.
VMnpm TIL The Large Hadron Collider created the one of the densest materials known to man. A a cubic centimeter of it would weigh 40 billion tons.
Zywa TIL Mark Twain wrote that Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs are “an unapproachable literary masterpiece” and that the memoirs are regarded as the best military memoirs in existence.
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