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TIL that hockey players Claude and Brendan Lemieux are the only father and son to both be punished by the NHL for biting other players.

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16JZW TIL the 2026 World Cup will be the first Cup to host 48 teams instead of the usual 32.
OPGL TIL of the ESPN show Playmakers. It was their first original drama series depicting the lives of an American football team. Despite high ratings, the show was cancelled after 11 episodes due to pressure from the NFL, who thought the show negatively portrayed pro football players
4XWWR TIL-In the 1960s-1970s a study was done to compare the development of twins and triplets separated at birth. The study is often called unethical because the researchers didn't obtain the consent of anybody involved with the children. The records from the study are sealed at yale until 2065.
yVKwp TIL that whilst filming Oldboy (2003), Choi Min-sik prayed in between each of the four takes of the octopus scene because he is a vegetarian buddhist.
6JkZ TIL that James May of Top Gear/Grand Tour fame not only bested Gordon Ramsay in a ‘test of man’ competition (which ended with the two eating rotten shark) but beat him in culinary competition while drunk on white wine.