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TIL that there is a statue outside the Paris museum Pompidou celebrating Zinedine Zidane’s last match where he headbutted Marco Materazzi in the WC final ‘06

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Z8KMv TIL that the Uncompahgre Ute Native American tribe made special ceremonial rattles filled with quartz that would emit flashes of light when shaken. This was an early example of triboluminescence.
PYPJn TIL every Dec 25th, a town in Peru celebrates "Takanakuy" where men, women and children settle grudges from the past year by calling each other out and having a fist fight. Then everybody goes drinking to numb the pain and move on to a new year.
1GpX TIL many American men’s dress shoes have a notch cut out of the heel, referred to as “The Gentleman’s Notch”.
OwD1 TIL that in response to a “catastrophic emergency,” the United States government can be suspended and replaced with a single, combined branch “coordinated” by the President, indefinitely.
8exGZ TIL an Afghan immigrant invented and sold the process for Minute Rice to General Mills.