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TIL in a game of hockey, the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 with a zamboni driver in goal (as a back-up).

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p86Gb TIL about the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis, a clinical study on African American men where they went deliberately untreated by medical professionals as part of a 40-year experiment by the US Public Health Service. Cited as "arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S history"
KYEOJ TIL of the Ford Turbine-Powered Semi-Truck called "Big Red" which was introduced at the 1964 World's Fair, found its way into private hands and was restored instead of being crushed.
0le5 TIL Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf (4 ft 0.25 in at age 18) and a giant (7 ft 8 in at age 51).
Rev8 TIL Orson Welles was a lifelong practitioner of magic, and that in 1953 he filmed a short where he pretended to interact from the screen with a live magic performer, and that David Copperfield used this film to interact with him posthumously on television in 1992.
W7RnN TIL Testosterone is an anabolic steroid. Testosterone, trenbolone, oxymetholone, methandrostenolone, nandrolone, stanozolol, boldenone, and oxandrolone are some of the anabolic steroids that are most commonly encountered by United States law enforcement.