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TIL there is an eSport based on Microsoft Excel where competitors race to complete spreadsheet challenges

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78O7X TIL that men having sex 3 times a week, will help reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke by 50%
R7189 TIL that high heels were originally used as military footwear for Persian soldiers on horseback, during the 16th century, and only later became popular among upper-class women.
LklAV TIL "Prime minister" was originally used as an unofficial derogatory term for an MP who had improperly accumulated too much power in parliament.
VBNl0 TIL in Rocky (1976), when the fight poster shows Rocky in the wrong color shorts, that was not intentional. The art department messed up, showing red with a white stripe instead of white with a red stripe. The budget was only around a million dollars, so they had Rocky point it out in the film.
16n07 TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.