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TIL the NCAA changed food rules to allow Division 1 athletes to have unlimited meals at school instead of just 3; and the change was probably due to UConn’s guard Shabazz Napier telling reporters he often “went to bed hungry.”

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x9b5 TIL: In the original Sleeping Beauty the prince rapes her while she is asleep, and she becomes pregnant with twins.
wLBb8 TIL there is a long lost tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in NYC, that may contain an 18th century locomotive which is reported to be the hiding place of John Wilks Booth's lost diary. A man found the tunnel in 1980, but it was resealed by the city before he could finish searching for the train.
W7ja8 TIL about Agnes Sorel, the 15th-century official mistress of Charles VII who bore him four children. Her scandalous dresses prompted the Catholic Archbishop to condemn her choice of clothing with “front openings through which one sees the teats, nipples, and breasts of women.”
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