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TIL that Shaq joined the Freemasons in 2011

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e0VAE TIL in the first draft of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail was discovered at Harrods department store, at the Holy Grail counter.
R7MJ8 TIL of Gino Bartali, a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in WWII Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.
vpax TIL a Peruvian football club tried to avoid relegation by moving their stadium to one of the highest cities in the world, so their opponents would suffer from altitude sickness. Oh, and their nickname was “Los Wankeros”.
awalJ TIL Courtney Cox is the first person on tv to say the word "period" for menstruations
rN1rW TIL glutamate accumulation in the prefrontal cortex during demanding tasks was linked to cognitive fatigue.