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TIL that in Rosario, Argentina, the home city of Lionel Messi, people are banned from naming their children ‘Messi’

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xgYg TIL when Facebook users voted for Taylor Swift to perform at a school for deaf students as a prank, the school was removed from the contest, but Swift donated $10K to the school, 4 companies matched her donation, VH1 gave $10k in instruments, & Swift gave the students tickets to her Boston concert.
E1avw TIL European bison herds move by majority rule: each bison “votes” by facing the direction it wants to go, and the herd goes in the direction chosen by the largest number.
9jmX TIL the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that competitive cheerleading is NOT a sport and thus, can not be used in place of another women’s sport under Title IX.
oRvK8 TIL that some species of flatworms fence with their dual headed penis to determine who becomes the female. The loser (the one that gets inseminated) becomes the female and preduces the eggs (costs a lot of energy)
0wyky TIL that workers can get desensitized to the odor added to natural gas - mercaptan - which can lead to catastrophic industrial accidents. This applies mostly to purging those gases indoors and workers relying on sense of smell rather than monitors, without realizing they can't smell it anymore.