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TIL about a Brazilian Con artist called Carlos Kaiser, who had a decade long career as a Football player, and managed to sign for multiple teams, without player even one regular game. The one time he almost had to play, he started a fight during, to get a Red Card, avoiding to actually play.

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x6KGk TIL in the 1870s and 1880s, prostitution was the primary job for women in Helena, Montana. In 1886, the city had 52 prostitutes employed. The madams gained immense wealth and purchased multiple city blocks and even established their mortgage company.
j6yMQ TIL about the Ham Sandwich Theorem, which states that states that given n measurable "objects" in n-dimensional Euclidean space, it is possible to divide each one of them in half (with respect to their measure, e.g. volume) with a single (n − 1)-dimensional hyperplane.
GYjEG TIL the legendary golden fleece sought by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology is thought to have been inspired by the lustrous fur of the golden takin, a hoofed animal native to the eastern Himalayan mountain range and one of four takin subspecies. The takin is the national animal of Bhutan.
10Gr TIL Norway had a nationwide butter crisis where a package of butter cost 50$
1ayM8 TIL in the US, people running to represent a congressional district in the US House don't have to live in the congressional district in order to be able to be eligible to run