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TIL Football referee with over 2,000 games under his belt breaks longest career record

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rN7lx TIL that white people have a higher likelihood of developing skin cancer compared to black people.
DQoxP TIL: Contrary to popular belief, Jesse Owens didn’t humiliate the Germans in the Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics. In fact Germany won by far the most gold and total medals, almost twice as the second place (the USA)
Z8Qo4 TIL of Sir David Brailsford, a British cycling coach who theorizes if you make a 1% improvement in a host of tiny areas, the cumulative benefits will be extraordinary. Utilizing this theory of "marginal gains"; his teams have won 18 gold medals, six Tour de France titles, and 59 World Championships.
A1B4 TIL that humans empathetically experience pain when they see someone of the same race experience pain, but not someone of another race. All races felt pain when shown a “violet” person experiencing pain suggesting that lack of empathy for other races is learned and not innate.
VM79G TIL that New Zealand was undiscovered and completely devoid of human beings no more than 800 years ago.