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TIL that in Australia, the phrase "doing a Bradbury" means achieving an unexpected or unusual success. The phrase references Steven Bradbury, a short-track speed skater, that won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics from last place, after the entire field ahead of him crashed out on the final corner

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yOA8 TIL A 12 year old boy won the right to wear a t-shirt saying “Homosexuality is a sin, Islam is a lie, Abortion is murder. Some issues are just black and white” to his school. The school then told him not to wear the t-shirt, leading to his parents suing the school. The parents won.
7LXX TIL of Brryan Jackson. He was purposely injected with HIV-tainted blood when he was 11 months old, by his own father. He developed AIDS by the age of 5 and death seemed certain. Today, he is over 20 years old and the virus has been undetectable in his blood for over five years.
01e5 TIL That you don’t really need to brush twice a day AFTER meals. Brushing is really just about cleaning the plaque which houses microbes on your teeth. It’s better to clear the plaque before meals so that your meals don’t feed the plaque which feeds the teeth-damaging microbes.
0we5j TIL: The world's largest hour-glass contains one tonne of sand and it takes a year for all the sand to drain from the top to the bottom.
R7wa1 TIL that Tug of War (not a masturbatory reference) was once an Olympic Sport. It was dropped after the Antwerp games in 1920 after a number of controversies.