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TIL drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Mexicano once bet $2 million on a soccer game. They each hand-picked a dream team of professional soccer players and flew them to Escobar’s home to play the game on his own private field (fast forward to 25:51).

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KYdMQ TIL the true story of Moby Dick. A whale sunk a crew’s main ship - leaving 3 sailboats. They’d live if they sailed to a nearby island. Out of fear from (false) stories of cannibalism, they tried going back to the mainland. In tragic irony, they got lost at sea and had to resort to cannibalism.
kODP7 TIL that there is a small increase in number of heart attacks globally at the start of daylight savings time in spring (when people lose an hour's sleep) and a corresponding decrease at the end
4Wda TIL that the entirety of China follows one timezone, despite the fact that it spans five. This is due to the Communist party’s efforts to create a unified nation and results in a 10am sunrise and midnight sunset in some areas of the country.
XERMR TIL: A study was conducted in an Australian University in 2008 found that "male science nerds" are most likely to be virgins and that female art majors were the most sexually active, but have little knowledge of what chlamydia is. The study was prompted by rapidly increasing cases of chlamydia.
9YXvB TIL the word "Jedi" originated from the Japanese term "Jidaigeki," which refers to a drama set, set during the Edo period of Japanese history, when samurais were still in activity.