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TIL that match fixing got so out of control in Canadian soccer that one pro match ended early after the home team’s attempts to score an own-goal were repeatedly thwarted by the away team

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69mMW TIL when Sam Smith, author of The Jordan Rules (1991), initially proposed writing a book about a Chicago Bulls' season to potential publishers, there was no interest in it; he said 90% of the rejection letters were because Jordan hadn't "won anything important" and "the Bulls were irrelevant."
kZBg TIL poor men prefer large breasts, while financially secure men prefer small breasts
MeYlA TIL that Yanjaa Wintersoul, a26 year old polyglot, memorised the entire 2018 IKEA catalogue in a week. She stumbled across memorization techniques when trying to graduate her Bachelors degree program half the time and almost couldn't graduate high school as she had trouble memorising her Sciences.
neKvo TIL about Rédoine Faïd, France's most wanted criminal in 2013. A gangster and serial jailbreaker, one of his prison escapes involved hijacking a helicopter with the help of three armed accomplices.
9wrA6 TIL that, during production of Thor: The Dark World, Marvel decided that the Aether and previous MacGuffins would be used as Infinity Stones. In order to give each stone its own color, the red Orb in Guardians of the Galaxy was changed to purple in post-production.