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TIL During the '74 World Cup Final, Johan Cruyff, refused to wear the adidas kit due to his Puma sponsorship. They compromised and he wore a jersey with only two stripes. Years later Cruyff's own clothing brand released an orange shirt with 2 stripes and his number 14 - adidas then tried to sue him.

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mxQPO TIL Croatia's children concentration camp in Sisak was so brutal that even the Nazis questioned it. Some children were killed by being given poisoned milk or gruel laced with caustic soda.
9w4Qm TIL the Bureau of Land Management uses trigger activated sodium cyanide traps to kill coyotes on public lands which inadvertently kill thousands of pets and endangered species every year.
57jn TIL that a series of experiments by psychologists at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Toronto showed that upper class people are less charitable and more likely to cheat.
yVjYv TIL "Cut off your nose to spite your face" There is a version that this phrase has a rather curious origin. Saint Ebbe was said to have severed her own nose to dissuade violation by Viking raiders.
WAOo TIL Texas maintains a database of death row inmates’ last words