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TIL Owners of sports teams are allowed to write their players' contracts off as depreciating assets in order to obtain huge tax benefits.

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XEoMX TIL: 'One of the largest human experiments in history' was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco. Over the next 20 years, the military would conduct 239 "germ-warfare" tests…
0QbL TIL that in the early years of baseball, it was common for players to go in the stands and assault heckling fans. Ty Cobb once attacked a handicapped man for calling him a “half-nigger.” Fans shouted at him to stop because the man had no hands, he reportedly retorted “I don’t care if he got no feet”
J11vv TIL that The Osmonds originally formed, in part, to raise money to buy hearing aids for their deaf brothers Tom and Virl.
kOn75 TIL South African novelist Bessie Head was born of an illegal union between her white mother (who was placed in a mental asylum during her pregnancy) and black father (who then mysteriously disappeared). Her works reveal empathy with children and women treated as “dead things”
myZE TIL that the first person to perform a cardiac catheterization was not allowed to perform the procedure on a patient, so he decided to perform it on himself and then walk all the way to the X-ray room with the catheter still in his arm to prove that the tube had reached his heart.