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TIL Blackjack hall of famers get free room and board at Barona Casino, so long as they promise not to play the blackjack tables.

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VMErQ TIL that rubbing an injury right after it happens alleviates pain because the spinal chord preferentially forwards pressure signals (to the brain) over pain signals
OoMK4 TIL that Chimney sweeps' carcinoma was a deadly cancer of the scrotum that affected chimney sweeps, as young as 8 years old; one treatment was to cut it off without anesthesia - and another was an arsenic paste.
9nPm TIL in Boston a wife and her unborn child were robbed and killed. The surviving husband gave the vague description of the assailant as “a black man with a husky voice” throwing the city into a police state of racial unrest. It later emerged the white husband killed them for the insurance money.
xVjjB TIL about Luz Long, the Nazi Olympian Long Jumper who befriended Jesse Owens during the 1936 Olympics, and was such good friends that Owens was Long's son's best man at his wedding after WWII.
epn4k TIL that in 1944 a Sci-fi writer wrote a short story describing nuclear bombs and their construction methods called "Deadline". It was so accurate that the Counter intelligence Corps feared a leak or spy on the Manhattan Project. In actuality the info was always there in public scientific journals.