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OQWL TIL of “Abortion Doping”, a rumoured practice where female athletes get pregnant, use the hormonal benefits for their performance, and abort the pregnancy.
lEk5 TIL the word “Testify” originates from the Latin word for testicle. Two men taking an oath of allegiance would hold their balls as a sign of truthfulness. If they broke their oath they would lose their manhood, literally putting their balls on the line.
neveY TIL the Hitchcock film North By Northwest (1959) is regarded by some to be "the first James Bond film", due to its similarities with splashily colorful settings, secret agents, a femme fatale, and an elegant, wisecracking leading man opposite a sinister yet strangely charming villain
ne87b TIL about PS General Slocum, a passenger steamboat that burned and sank into the East River in 1904. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 passengers died, the largest loss of life in terms of disaster in NYC until 9/11.
6ZZW TIL as eclipses can be mathematically calculated, the eclipse of May 28, 585 BC, which stopped a battle in Greece, was said by Isaac Asimov to be the earliest human event known to the exact date and time.