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TIL Boris Mikhailov, captain of the USSR hockey team, was offered a $1 million contract to leave Russia in 1980 after the Miracle on Ice. However, he declined as the KGB was standing next to him when the offer was made.

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ywaX TIL In November 2016, North Korea made a state request to officials in China pleading for them to stop referring to ‘glorious leader’ Kim Jong-un as fat. Some of his nicknames in China were: Kim Fatty III, Kim Fat Fatty, and Kim Abundant III.
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V1LB TIL Wagner and Nietzsche were very close friends, until they had a cat-fight and Wagner wrote a letter to Nietzsche’s physician explaining that all his health problems (later discovered to be syphilis) were due to his “excessive masturbation.”
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