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TIL In a 2014 report it was found that the mortality rate for professional wrestlers was significantly higher than that of athletes in other sports.

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M7AeB TIL that the last Confederate forces surrendered six months after the Civil War ended after the captain of a rogue commerce raider, the CSS Shenandoah, circumnavigated the globe to finally hand over his ship to the mayor of Liverpool, England
4LAN TIL: There Is A Town Which Is Literally Living Under A Rock
W7BRN TIL Blue's Clues Star Steve Burns made Young Sheldon's theme song while also making a cameo appearance at S3E11 as Sheldon's Star Trek enthusiast friend.
16lYW TIL Viggo Mortensen and Buckethead made four albums together.
6EBoJ TIL that in Nazi Germany, the founders of Adidas and Puma (The Dassler brothers) secretly gave Jesse Owens a pair of track shoes that helped him win 4 gold medals for the Americans in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. This gift is said to have spared their factory from destruction from Allied forces.