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TIL before working on the Donald Duck comics and creating Scrooge McDuck. Carl Barks began his career at a racy man's magazine "Calagary Eye Opener" in the early 1920s. After retiring, he made tons of erotic artwork showing people with duck bills he jokingly referred to as the "Duck Syndrome".

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D1lrj TIL in 2009, there was a small CS:GO e-sports tournament between virtus.pro & forZe. The sponsors of the event decided to secretly invite a couple of strippers to see if the players could get distracted. The women were topless and tried everything they could, but the players didn't get distracted.
l7vja TIL "A League of Their Own" was inspired from real players and people in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPL)
GdEQ TIL the US Supreme Court has judged that in some circumstances personal insults and epithets constitute “fighting words” and are not protected by the 1st Amendment. This is also legally distinct from incitement and hate speech.
XEKVP TIL of the crazy story of the colonial Australian Judge who refused to acknowledge the validity of any colonial law that contradicted British Law. Eventually he was removed from office and the British had to pass a law to specifically say that colonial laws were valid.
evEb TIL in 1986, at the height of apartheid, Glasgow, Scotland changed the name of the square where the South African consulate-general was based to Nelson Mandela Place, forcing the South African attaché to have to write this address if they wanted to receive mail.