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TIL: Spain Cheated in the 2000 Summer Paralympics, 10 of the 12 players on their roster “were encouraged to pretend to be stupid” and had no mental disability.

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R74Z8 TIL that women’s shirt buttons were on the left because they were meant to be buttoned by others (maids for wealthy women back then).
GYvXJ TIL that LGBT folks in China, Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan refer to each other as 同志 (tóngzhì), meaning "comrade"
Vwp8 TIL Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are once replied to a young boys fan mail with a hand drawn picture of one of his characters. The boy’s mother wrote back saying simply “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.”
oRvrr TIL that there is a vast illegal black market for blood in India. Selling blood and paying donors in India is illegal, but across the country, a vast "red market" proliferates. People are even kept prisoner in 'Blood Farms' and harvested for their blood.
9Y5ZD TIL that NASA investigates giraffe blood system to improve suit for astronauts.