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TIL that a German football club was banned from playing for 12 months in 1934 for failing to give the Nazi salute at the start of a game.

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oBMNE TIL a male Kangaroo is called a boomer.
j6MME TIL that a district in India’s Punjab state requires prospective gun owners to plant 10 trees and take pictures with them as proof
oO8r TIL a cat named Creme Puff is the oldest cat in recorded history when it died at 38 years old in 2005.
695MX TIL An independent Northern counterfeiter named Samuel C. Upham made so much fake Southern money during the American Civil War that experts think it made up around 1-3% of the total currency supply of the Confederacy.
ErXV TIL Alexander the Great had heterochromia iridum. One of his eyes was blue and the other was brown.