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Jul 18, 2020

TIL Her Majesty the Queen opened the London 2012 Olympics in a spoof video whereby James Bond escorted her to the venue via helicopter, which they both parachuted out from with Union Jack parachutes

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Jul 16, 2020

TIL that the New Zealand badminton team were called the "Black Cocks" however The International Badminton Federation (IBF) found the name hard to swallow and made them change it.

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Jun 26, 2020

TIL The National Spelling Bee titled 8 Co-Champions after running out of words in a 3.5 Hour Final. Starting with 562 Contestants, the Final Eight continued for 20 Straight Rounds of Spelling Words without any errors.

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Jun 16, 2020

TIL In the 1952 Olympics, Luxembourg won a gold medal which was so unexpected that the band did not know their national anthem and instead had to improvise and played gibberish.

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May 12, 2020

TIL that after the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, the German football team was advised not to leave the stadium they were playing in due to threats on their hotel, so they slept in the stadium on mattresses. The French team they had just played against stayed the night with them, out of solidarity.

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May 02, 2020

TIL that in 2019, a saxophonist was hired to compose a song for the critically endangered New Zealand bird, the Kakapo, in order to put them in a romantic mood for mating. It seems to have worked as 249 eggs were laid and 76 hatched during the breeding season.

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Mar 25, 2020

til that in the 1952 Olympics, Luxembourg won a gold medal which was so unexpected that the band did not know their national anthem and instead had to improvise and played gibberish.

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Mar 05, 2020

TIL about Carlos Kaiser, who managed to have a nearly 20-year career as a professional football (soccer) player despite rarely playing and never scoring. He faked injuries or got himself ejected to avoid having to play but still became a fan favorite. “Life,” he said, “is marketing.”

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Dec 24, 2019

TIL Aaron Hernandez, upon autopsy, was discovered to have had the worst case of CTE researchers had ever seen in a person of his age.

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Oct 26, 2019

TIL that the definition of sport is so vague that things such as seeing who can throw a pillow the furthest are technically a sport.

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Sep 17, 2019

TIL a British engineer won £1.5 million from a £2 bet. He correctly picked 6 winners in a running jackpot and bet on a horse that had lost 28 races.

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Aug 12, 2019

TIL the quickest a football player has been sent off was just 2 seconds after the starting whistle when striker Lee Todd said "Fuck me, that was loud!"

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May 27, 2019

TIL when Lance Armstrong was asked in an interview what he would do if he could go back in time and return to 1995 (the year he started doping), he said that he would "probably do it again."

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May 16, 2019

TIL that Usain Bolt set his 9.58s 100m record on a diet of chicken nuggets

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May 01, 2019

TIL that, after becoming the first white man to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds, French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre received a formal letter of invitation from the Ku Klux Klan. He did not respond.

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Apr 15, 2019

TIL that Japan is making all of its medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics out of discarded electronics

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Apr 14, 2019

TIL in 1989 96 people were killed at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England after they were crushed due to overcrowding. Although match attendees and hooliganism were first cited as the cause, a 2016 inquiry found the police to be at fault due to their mismanagement of the crowd.

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Apr 09, 2019

TIL A maximum-security prison in Uganda has a soccer league (run and played by prisoners), with an annual soccer tournament. The tournament is taken very seriously; they have a uniforms, referees, cleats, and a 30-page constitution. The winning team gets prizes such as soap, sugar, and a goat.

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