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TIL that Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar was murdered in 1994, as retaliation for having scored an own goal.

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Rm0j TIL “got milk?” ads were originally translated to Spanish as “are you lactating?”
yVKNJ TIL of the American Hippo Bill, an attempt to introduce hippos into the bayous of Lousiana
6EON7 TIL: People who get the chills (music gives you goosebumps) might have a special brain (enhanced ability to experience intense emotions)
AD0a4 TIL that Dr. Thomas Midgely, inventor of both leaded-gasoline and chlorofluorocarbon with the best of intentions, devised an ingenious system of pulleys and strings to pull his polio-stricken body out of bed, which tangled around his neck, and killed him.
69VAW TIL about Birendra Mazumdar. He was a little-known Indian-British hero of the infamous Colditz Castle POW prison during World War II, who defied the Nazis. He was shunned and treated terribly by the British, facing racism and accusations of theft, corruption and treason when he escaped.