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TIL A study conducted on basketball matches looked at the effect of abusive spectators on the performance of players; it noted that when the crowd was being anti-social and abusive, the home team made far more violations than the visiting team.

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pwLA TIL the McRib is only sold when pork prices are low.
nbxY TIL Roger Moore was older than Sean Connery, even though he replaced Connery as a ‘younger Bond’.
pAlQ TIL in 1987, a man convicted of raping and murdering both a 10-year-boy, and an 8-year-old girl, was released from prison after only 12 years served for “good behavior”. He went on to commit 12 more murders.
woGLE TIL although the term Pachyderm is still commonly used, the order of Pachydermata for classification is considered obsolete. The 3 families formerly referred to as pachyderms are now divided into 5 families.
BreZd TIL that the only difference between a caribou and a reindeer is that caribou are wild and reindeer are domesticated.