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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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j6jrj TIL that when elephants die of old age it's because they have lost their last set of molars, can't eat and die of starvation.
JyQl TIL Ronald Reagan is the only US president to have worn a Nazi uniform. It was in the 1942 movie “Desperate Journey”
mx0xv TIL about the Bodo skull: a 600,000 year old early human fossil from Ethiopia. Cut marks on the skull indicate the individual was scalped with stone tools almost immediately after death.
ZpGYp TIL chemist Sherwood Rowland won the Nobel Prize for discovering that CFCs damage the ozone, which shields Earth from UV radiation. His work led to the Montreal Protocol, a global treaty to phase out CFCs, helping heal the ozone.
Z8LnD TIL devices that use optical sensors like heart rate monitors, fitness trackers, oximeters, and motion activated soap dispensers can be unreliable for people with dark skin