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TIL Goalkeeper Tommaso Berni spend 6 years under contract to Inter Milan, reportedly earning around €200,000 a year. During those 6 years, he never made a single appearance for the club but managed to get a red card on two occasions, one for sarcastically applauding the referee and one for dissent

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69gXQ TIL Several BP and Transocean executives were on board Deepwater Horizon during the catastrophic explosion. A few of their intentions included maintenance planning, presenting a safety campaign, and congratulating the senior staff of the rig for 7 years of operations without a lost time incident.
16JG7 TIL that after being excommunicated by the Pope and threatened by the invasion of England by King Phillipe II of France, King John was in negotiations with the Almohad Caliph to convert to Islam in exchange for assistance against his enemies
ANLLl TIL of FK Arkadag, a football club founded by the former Turkmenistan President in 2023. This non-corrupt team is so good that they were included in the Turkmenistan top flight right from its foundation and would go on to win 2 league titles and 1 Turkmenistan Cup, winning EVERY game along the way.
X0jmR TIL in the 1946 California gubernatorial election, Earl Warren was the nominee for both the Republican and Democratic Party. He won with 91.64% of the vote and the candidate in second place was the nominee for the Prohibition Party.
DKBr TIL that the FBI maintains their own Bitcoin wallet that consists of seized Bitcoins.