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TIL in a 1991 football match in Uruguay, a striker was wearing multiple gold chains. When he went up front for a corner, a defender pulled off one of the chains and put it in his sock. Neither the striker nor anyone else noticed, but TV cameras picked it up. At full time, the defender was arre-sted

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69GOW TIL of the 1979 US "Tractorcade". Demanding policy changes, around 3,000 farmers brought their tractors to Washington D.C to create traffic and congestion. However, during the protest a blizzard struck, and the convoy became unexpected heroes shuttling hospital staff through the snow
mxkMO TIL that the carriage Dorothy rides in in the Wizard of Oz was once owned by Abraham Lincoln.
9wZp TIL that Mythbuster Grant Imahara is a steampunk style fashion model.
VaDZ TIL of colossal cannibal great white shark, capable of hunting and eating 10 ft Great White Sharks.
0we0N TIL Gary Larson received some backlash for 'The Far Side' comic which has a female gorilla finding a hair on a male and asking, 'Conducting some research with that Jane Goodall tramp?' A rep from the Jane Goodall Institute complained, but Goodall herself later said she thought the comic was funny