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TIL Ron Artest Applied For Job At Best Buy During His Rookie Season To Get Employee Discounts

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QJx4e TIL Number systems, such as tallies marked into clay or wood, predate the invention of writing (and the beginning of history) by over 35,000 years!
jGMn TIL that a gypsy boxer in Nazi Germany was threatened by the Nazis to throw his next match. He came into that match with his hair dyed blonde and with whiteface. He took blows for five rounds like he was asked before collapsing. The boxers name was Johann Trollmann
6EedW TIL Milling is a training activity in the British airborne infantry. For a fixed period, two opponents punch each other in the head as aggressively as possible without evasion. An instructor described milling as "arguably the most important event of the [training] course"and its "flagship event"
74Kp TIL that since 1617, breaches of etiquette at Oxford University have been punished by making the offender drink up to four pints of beer in one go.
OGLEX TIL that during Deng Xiaoping's visit to the United States, a Maoist American protested against him, calling him a "capitalist roader"