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TIL Adidas does not sponsor players who are Scientologists

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OoYX6 TIL Two babies were switched at birth, one family was rich and the other poor, the rich couple's biological baby became a truck driver and the poor couple's biological baby became a CEO of a company
woAYY TIL there's a war called "the War of Jenkin's Ear". A war in the 1700s triggered by the alleged cutting off of a Mr Jenkin's ear off the coast of Florida
kON84 TIL There is a measuring device specifically designed to determine the volume of testicles. It is called an Orchidometer.
R5M51 TIL Beginning in early 1942, the Canadian government detained and dispossessed more than 90 percent of Japanese Canadians, some 21,000 people, living in British Columbia. They were detained under the War Measures Act and were interned for the rest of the Second World War.
16pAP TIL: of Adam Worth, who fought with the Union in the US Civil war, then went on to a life of crime in Europe, where he earned the nickname “the Napoleon of Crime”, and served as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes’ great nemesis James Moriarity.