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TIL that Lamine Yamal, a Spanish professional footballer, signed his first contract with FC Barcelona when he was 6 years old

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8a9DP TIL that in 1974 a local in Alaska played an April fool's joke on April 1st of an entire city. He set about 100 car tires, smoke bombs and other flammable materials on fire in the crater of an inactive volcano to make it look like the volcano was about to erupt.
6QMZ TIL: Narwhals’ ‘horn’ is actually an erupted left tooth, that can sense temperature, salinity, particle density, and can 'feel’
x6Jp0 TIL of Anthony Ray, producer and son of famous Hollywood director Nicholas Ray, who was once married to his father's ex-wife--actress Gloria Grahame--his former stepmother. Since Grahame had a child named Timothy Ray, with Nicholas Ray, that made Anthony his stepfather and brother at the same time.
nWe5d TIL Drunk surfing is illegal in Iowa.
rRde4 TIL the nazi Sieg Heil was ridiculed by some people. Since "heil" is also the imperative of the German verb "heilen" ("to heal"), a common joke in Nazi Germany was to reply with "Is he sick?", "Am I a doctor?", or "You heal him!"