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TIL that Adidas will cancel any sponsorship deal they have with a player if it turns out he has anything to do with Scientology

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KmmJ TIL the 5,300-year-old mummified man found in the Alps had 61 tattoos.
KOoNQ TIL after Nicole van den Hurk's death, her stepbrother falsely confessed to the killing in order to get her body exhumed for DNA tests, leading to the arrest and prosecution of her real attacker
p8Ybe TIL there was an Egyptian Pharaoh whose name in hieroglyphics was a pair of outstretched arms followed by three penises
v17GL TIL the tritone was never banned by the Catholic church; it was called "the devil in music" in one medieval music theory text because its vibrations made it technically difficult to sing. The tritone was not literally associated with the concept of evil until Black Sabbath popularized the myth.
lo9yA TIL that viable sperm can be harvested from dead men up to 48 hours after death.