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TIL famous Italian Tenor, Andrea Bocelli, completed a law degree and practiced law for a year before embarking on his professional music career

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1agv8 TIL of US Army master sergeant Roy Benavidez. During the Vietnam War, he fought 1000 NVA soldiers for 6 hours with only a knife while saving the lives of his comrades. He was so badly injured he was presumed dead and when a doctor was about to zip his body bag, he spat in the doctor's face.
4Zao TIL that a ‘virtual virus’ was released into World of Warcraft that infected players and spread throughout the whole universe. The behaviour of the online players was so lifelike that the incident was studied by scientist to prepare for a real life Pandemic.
4XXpb TIL that in 2015, the NFL was flooded with complaints from colorblind fans after staging a Bills/Jets game in which the Bills wore all red and the Jets wore all green. It was supposed to be a "Color Rush" game celebrating the 50th anniversary of the NFL's first color transmission.
9gWB TIL: Typographic Rivers are the gaps in typesetting, which appear to run through a paragraph of text, due to a coincidental alignment of spaces.
oml7 TIL France was not the first to recognize the US as a legitimate nation. Morocco was the first. Even today, Morocco and the US share the US’ longest unbroken treaty.