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TIL Max Woosnam captained Manchester City football club and England, scored a century at Lord’s, played golf off scratch, won Wimbledon and Olympic gold in tennis, made a 147 break at snooker and beat Charlie Chaplin in table tennis with a butter knife.

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8aMAZ TIL during WWI all Army recruits underwent intelligence testing, the largest mass testing that had ever been attempted before. By the end of the war, close to 2 million soldiers had been tested. As a result of the tests roughly half of the recruits were classified at or below the level of "moron"
PYQ5g TIL that Christopher Lee was once driving through Italy with his wife when their car had a puncture. He went for help, but fell into a ditch and got covered in mud. He reached a house and knocked on the door. The owner opened it, shrieked and fainted. They’d seen a Dracula film the night before.
8ek9L TIL that a Moms for Liberty member got a book about banning books from school libraries in the school libraries of Florida's Indian River County school district
wLJlP TIL that as recently as 1972, simply being outed for suffering from depression was enough to force Thomas Eagleton to step down from the US vice presidential ticket
OG9GR TIL during the period aptly named as "the great dying" 57% of biological families on earth, uncluding 81% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate went extinct. The likely cause is volcanic activity turned the oceans toxic and released toxic gas like sulfuric dioxide into the air