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TIL A soccer player faked a 20 year career without playing soccer.

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Zg4D TIL there’s an online poker bot called “Cepheus” that’s so efficient that it cannot lose at Texas Hold'em in the long run.
kOry7 TIL that not everyone's kidneys are a pair located in their mid torso. It ranges from next to their lung (Thoracic Kidney), to next to their bladder (Pelvic Kidney). Some people's kidneys are fused into one giant kidney. (horseshoe kidney), and some people have both of their kidneys on the same side
6E4Zm TIL that "threatening the President" even as a joke can send people to jail: Richard Humphreys said "God might speak to the world through a burning Bush," in regards to President Bush, was found guilty and sentenced to 3 years in prison.
YpxNG TIL of the Machine Identification Code. A series of secret dots that certain printers leave on every piece of paper they print, giving clues to the originator and identification of the device that printed it. It was developed in the 1980s by Canon and Xerox but wasn't discovered until 2004.
bYY0 TIL in 2002, Santa Claus topped the Forbes Fictional 15 list with an estimated net worth of $∞.