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TIL that abracadabra is actually a Hebrew (or Aramaic) phrase meaning “I create what I speak”

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wWXP TIL a Brazilian footballer staged his whole career for 24 years - he could barely kick a ball. One time he was forced to play as the team had no strikers. He was worried he would get exposed, so before the game he started a fight with a fan and as a result got sent off before the game even started.
4D96 TIL Canada does not allow Americans to enter their country with a DUI on record.
8aY04 TIL Indo-Canadian organized crime groups (of Indian origin) are the third major homegrown organized crime problem in Canada, next to outlaw motorcycle clubs and Native American criminal organizations.
xVRZk TIL about Elijah McCoy (1843-1929), an African American inventor who invented an oil-dripping cup for trains. Other inventors tried to copy McCoy's oil-dripping cup, but none of the other cups worked as well as his, so customers started asking for "The Real McCoy."
Me7da TIL that Twisty the Clown on "American Horror Story" was so scary that actors had to leave the set after takes and regularly complained of nightmares