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TIL NFL official Ed Hochuli is actually a lawyer who referees football games as a side gig.

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xmXw TIL that old school medicine cabinets had a slot at the back to dispose of razor blades, but they went straight into the drywall. This has caused many incidences of people finding hundreds of accumulated razorblades in their walls when renovating.
GYW54 TIL the ribbon that signified the opening of the Sydney Harbour bridge was slashed early by the sword of Captain Francis de Groot, who rode up on a horse and claimed the bridge in the name of “the decent and respectable people of New South Wales”.
mkmy TIL that gladiators were probably fat due to a high-energy vegetarian diet, which included calcium-rich ash. This fatty layer helped protect them from otherwise-lethal wounds.
8anyb TIL: Early fire departments were private companies and would only respond to fires at their customer's buildings. Plaques were placed on the building so people would know which department should respond.
ADRkn TIL In 2015, Tu Youyou became the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. In China, she is being called the "three noes" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas