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pQr8 TIL there is no word for “please” in Danish.
Ajxa TIL Dick Fosbury won the 1968 Olympic High Jump medal by using the hitherto unknown “flop” technique that he himself invented. It remains the most efficient high jumping technique to this day.
gMWEy TIL in 1988, Cosmopolitan magazine ran an article stating that women had no chance of contracting HIV from sex with a man because HIV could not be transmitted in the missionary position
ANN4g TIL The subtitle for the 1880 novel Ben Hur is A Tale of the Christ. The movie poster for the 1959 film had "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents A Tale of the Christ".
J1M7l TIL that James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570), Regent of Scotland, was the first head of government to be assassinated by a firearm.