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TIL that there is a World Championship for Microsoft Excel, (an e-sport!) which consists of solving mathematical problems and complex financial models on Excel quicker than your opponents. The 2023 winner, 'Andrew the Annihilator', got a wrestling-style belt, a trophy, and $3,000.

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eOZD TIL Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, sexually assaulted a woman who then fell pregnant with his child. Following the child’s birth, the woman was placed in a mental asylum and Cleveland went onto to become governor of New York, known as “Grover the Good”.
6KgQ TIL that the mother of a teenager murdered in a 2005 racist axe attack forgave his killers: “Unforgiveness makes you a victim and why should I be a victim?… Hate killed my son, so why should I be a victim too?”
kdkB TIL- Green Beanery, an organic coffee shop in Toronto, says all their proficts go to their owner –Energy Probe Research Foundation–which they call a “federally registered environmental charity”. In reality, it is a lobbyist group for fossil fuel companies, owned by Lawrence Solomon
pYe7O TIL when the now widely celebrated sitcom Fawlty Towers was first aired, it received a negative review from critic Richard Ingrams. The show’s creator John Cleese got revenge by naming one of the characters who is caught with a blow up sex doll after Ingrams.
9wWpG TIL that Nottingham has an area called Gotham, the Wayne Manor filming location from the Nolan series and even its own Joker who attacked someone with a bowling ball.