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TIL there's no legit professional wrestling (at least in the US)

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KYkOJ TIL that only in 2012, Johannes Kepler, one of the founders of modern astronomy and modern science in general, was cleared from being a suspect in the possible murder of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who employed him as an assistant at the time of his death.
ZpGZB TIL about the speed-duration relationship across the animal kingdom. According to Dr. Mark Burnley's research, humans rank as fairly average competitors overall. For middle-distance, the gold goes to the painted ghost crab, while lizards dominate in ultimate endurance.
QJO9M TIL that an absolute legend of a bureaucrat (René Camille) saved countless lives under Nazi occupied France. He consistently sabotaged tabulating machines that IBM were happily supplying to the Nazis to round up 'undesirables' and deliberately staged huge bureaucratic cock-ups. He died in Dachau.
kRA1 TIL that before Joseph Stalin ruled Russia he performed bank robberies to fund the communist cause
D1XRe TIL the melody of "Love Me Tender" is taken straight from a civil war ballad