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TIL a Brazilian soccer referee was murdered and beheaded during a match after he stabbed and killed a player.

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4JYN TIL: A blonde, blue eyed Frenchman convinced 18th-C London that he was from Taiwan. He wrote a best-selling book about his “homeland” filled with bizarre facts, including a fake alphabet and language. He became the most famous “Asian” in England. In other words, the greatest troll of the 1700s.
p6OA TIL that ‘saddam hussein’ is a golf term meaning to go from bunker to bunker
j6XOX Today I learned about Dick Rowe, a British Music executive who declined to sign the Beatles in 1962. Despite missing out on one of the biggest bands in history, Rowe later took a suggestion from George Harrison and gave a record contract to The Rolling Stones.
8eG04 TIL when the Beach Boys released God Only Knows in 1966, it was taboo to reference "God" in a song's title, and that they were worried that the song may not receive airplay
b56Z TIL that in 2003, Mike Rowe created MikeRoweSoft.com and was sued by Microsoft because it sounded too much like Microsoft.com. Rowe lost the case but was given an Xbox as compensation.