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TIL Adidas does not sponsor players who are Scientologists

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5Q5R TIL Elvis Presley was a huge Monty Python fan. His favorite sketch was “Nudge nudge” to the point that he would adress people as “Squire”.
NVMJ TIL surrogate alcohol is a thing, and a huge problem in Russia, where people will drink shoe polish, hairspray and cologne, 40,000 people per year die from alcohol poisoning there
yVgrV TIL that loneliness has the same impact on early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, making it more dangerous than obesity.
0rxN TIL That the Waffen SS had a unit made up of murders, rapists and the criminally insane that was led by a convicted paedophile.
ZpYyB TIL that Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's wife, died from severe burns in 1997 after her 12-year-old grandson, Malcolm Shabazz (later murdered in 2013), set fire to the apartment.