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TIL that Carlos “Kaiser” Raposo, a Brazilian “soccer player”, managed to con his way to a career that lasted 20 years despite never actually playing a game.

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pYmOA TIL There is no antivenin for Blue Ring Octopus venom. The tiny, often painless, bite causes total body paralysis and victims remain fully conscious as they suffocate - unable to call or signal for help. For this reason, Australian children are taught never to touch anything in a rock pool.
J1joB TIL Mastaba, meaning house of stability or house of eternity in Ancient Egyptian, is a type of flat-roofed, rectangular structure constructed out of mudbricks. It was the standard type of tomb in pre-dynastic and early dynastic Egypt for the pharaoh and the social elite, and a precursor to pyramids.
0bb1 TIL At the height of apartheid in South Africa the most popular television show among whites was The Cosby Show. During the apartheid government’s State of Emergency in the mid 1980s when it was illegal to publish photos of Mandela, Bill Cosby became the most recognizable black man in South Africa
PB8g Til that Pakistan puts nuclear warheads in unmarked vans and drives them around the country in a never ending road trim to “keep them safe.”
XAx6 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted the sentence of his political ally’s son who was convicted of stabbing to death of a 22 year old college student