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QpAL TIL pickle juice has about 20 times more sodium and eight times more potassium than a regular sports drink. Turns out that drinking an ounce or two of pickle juice can stop cramping within about 85 seconds – faster than water alone. Many athletes drink pickle juice before exercise to prevent cramps
R771w TIL FIFA President Sepp Blatter suggested women play in "tighter shorts" to increase the popularity of the game
mxRev TIL Lynchburg, TN isn't named after lynchings, but after Lynchburg, VA. Lynchburg, VA was named after founder John Lynch. John's brother was a man called Charles Lynch, a militiaman and quaker who extra-judiciously lynched Loyalists and is considered to be the namesake of the term lynching.
E1oNV TIL: In the late 1970s, directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog collaborated on an Ed Gein documentary, but their project fell through.
4k0bo TIL that in the Tenerife air disaster, the deadliest accident in aviation history, none of the victims had tickets to Tenerife.