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TIL that women are traditionally prohibited from entering a sumo ring. This tradition is so strictly enforced that in 2018 two women were asked to leave the ring even though they were preforming CPR on a man who collapsed in one.

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0wd51 TIL of Frantisek Zahradka. He was arrested in 1949 in Czechoslovakia when he was in high school for assisting people to cross the border. He spent two years in solitary, and 18 years was forced to mine uranium ore for the government.
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OoX1X TIL in 2013 a New Jersey man used an illegal GPS jammer on his pick-up, blocking his location from his employer. Unfortunately, it also disrupted a ground based aircraft position system at Newark Int., as he often drove near the airport. He was fined by the FCC almost $32,000 and fired from his job.
5YOVR TIL Mt Everest was named after George Everest, whose name is pronounced EVE-REST, not EVER-EST.
ADDMl TIL of Annie Dookhan, a chemist working for the Massachusetts state drug lab who pled guilty to falsifying thousands reports effecting up to 34,000 cases. She served a little over 2.5 years in prison before being paroled.