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TIL that there are no laws to prohibit professional sports leagues (I.e NFL, NBA, MLB, etc) from fixing their own games for increased revenue or any other purpose.

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4kLw5 TIL that Ferdie Pacheco was both Muhammad Ali’s doctor and his cornerman. In 1977, Pacheco noted that Ali got poor results in a series of physical reflex tests and advised him to retire from boxing. When Ali ignored this, Pacheco quit Ali’s team, no longer feeling confident with Ali’s condition.
E158w TIL Nicolas Cage was considered for the role of Randy "The Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler. When taken to a live event, he thought wrestling was real like UFC! In the end, the crew had a meeting where it was determined that Cage looked too healthy for the part, so the role went to Mickey Rourke.
epR6g TIL that Shark Week has been aired annually on the Discovery Channel every July or August since 1988
R7Ayw TIL Africa is reputed to be the most complex multilingual part of the world with over 2,086 indigenous languages. Consequently, most adult Africans are multilingual in their mother tongue, another indigenous and/or a widely spoken African language, and the language of their former colonizer
wLXDo TIL Heroin was synthesized in 1897 at Bayer pharmaceutical by German chemists looking for a less potent form of morphine. Bayer marketed heroin as a "non-addictive morphine substitute" for cough suppressants.