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TIL how someone dies of cancer
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D1rZD
TIL Evel Knievel, perhaps the best known daredevil, ruined his career when he attacked a man with a baseball bat due an unflattering book. The victim was knocked unconscious and needed major surgery to repair his arm.Evel only served 6 months in jail but lost all his endorsements and contracts.
J117B
TIL an African American WW1 veteran was tied to a tree with tire chains, and shot as many as 50 times for refusing to move off a sidewalk for a white woman
e0kog
TIL one of the 'unwritten rules' of the Tour de France: if the Tour is passing through where one of the riders grew up, everyone will slow down to let that rider lead the whole Tour through his hometown (also, if the race leader needs to stop to take a pee break, everyone else slows down/stops too)
BN8y
TIL that Stephen Colbert was on season one of Whose Line is it Anyway. And he played a newscaster
0wM9y
TIL that despite the English identifying themselves historically with the Anglo-Saxon invaders that conquered Britain, only about 1/3rd of the modern English genome can be traced to these Germanic tribes.