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TIL a 22-year-old high school JV girls basketball coach in Virginia lost her job after she played in a game by posing as a 13-year-old on the team who was out of town. Upon being reported, the team forfeited the game and the players (both JV & varsity) voted to cancel the rest of their seasons.

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kOLg1 TIL O.J. Simpson hosted a hidden-camera reality television show in 2006 where he pulled silly pranks on unsuspecting victims. The pranks are often so ill-conceived that when O.J. utters the show’s tag line, “You’ve been juiced!” it’s unclear, what, in fact, has just happened.
dGLQ TIL that when Parker Brothers tried to introduce a german version of Risk, the board game in which players try to dominate a map of world, the German government threatened to ban it on the grounds that it might encourage imperialist and militaristic impulses in the nation’s youth.
VBr5B TIL that the Mohawk language, which lacks the consonants P and B in native vocabulary, substituted them with K and W respectively in early loanwords from French. The modern language has now borrowed P as a consonant restricted to loanwords.
Jrdk TIL about “Curiosity”, an ‘experimental’ online mobile game by Peter Molyneux promising the winner a 'life-changing’ prize. There was a winner, back in May of 2013. He still hasn’t gotten his prize.
KYX1E TIL in 1927, 15-year-old tennis player Sidney Wood became the youngest man ever to play Wimbledon. In 1931, aged 19, he became the only person to win Wimbledon by default when his final opponent Frank Shields (Brooke's grandfather) withdrew with an injury. Sidney Wood died in 2009 at the age of 97.