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TIL Freddie Blassie, a heel wrestler in the 60's, claimed to have caused heart attacks among tv viewers in Japan due to his gimmick of biting his opponents and drawing blood. Blassie boasted "In my whole career, 92 people dropped dead of heart attacks. My ambition was to kill 100, and I failed,”

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lo9ZK TIL Tongs are so engraved in society that it is believed by the jewish people that god created them on the seventh day right before resting. This is because blacksmiths need a pair of tongs to create tongs.
YXkd TIL that Carl Sagan was an avid pot smoker and credits his habit with inspiring essays and scientific insights. Once while showering with his wife, he had a stoned insight, and “wrote the curves in soap on the shower wall” so he would not forget them.
O7yR TIL that Soviet psychology once classified “the struggle for truth and justice” as a symptom of paranoid, delusional schizophrenia.
7r4Gb TIL that motorcycle world champion, Barry Sheene, enjoyed smoking so much that he had a hole drilled through the chin-bar on his full-face helmet allowing him to smoke right up to the start of a race. He died aged 52 from cancer of the oesophagus and stomach.
wLOV8 TIL that in Bulgarian legends, it is said that if you walk beneath a rainbow, you will change genders