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TIL there is a theorem which posits a hairy sphere can never be combed perfectly flat.

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e0abk TIL the dwarf actors in the 1987 film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie could only survive in their costumes for five to seven minutes before their oxygen depleted, so a paramedic with a stop watch was required on set in order to keep the takes quick, and the actors from asphyxiating.
6jD7 TIL that in 1974, the Cleveland Indians (a Major League Baseball Team), hosted a “Ten Cent Beer Night”, without a limit to the number of purchases. A beer-fueled riot in the ninth inning forced the game to be forfeited, and victory given to the visiting team, the Texas Rangers.
Lv49 TIL after the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was announced in 1992, all 72,000 tickets sold out in three hours, even though no performers were announced besides the remaining members of Queen.
l70Lr TIL that bloodletting is still practiced in modern medicine to treat few diseases, including hemochromatosis (increased iron accumulation in the body).
QJBr6 TIL during the apartheid era in South Africa some of the tests to decide ancestry of a person included pinching to see what language they would say "Ouch" in and putting a pencil in the subjects' hair to see if it would fall off.