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TIL in the 2nd round of the 1977 Badminton World Championships, Flemming Delfs was disqualified for arriving too late to the court before the deciding game but his opponent Ray Stevens refused to accept victory on a walkover. Delfs won that match and later ended up winning the tournament.

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X0owj TIL in 1971 a Time Dilation experiment had 2 flights w/atomic clocks go around the world to prove Einstein's theories of relativity (time moves slower as you approach the speed of light, and/or when exposed to less gravity). The clocks gained 0.15 microseconds compared to the ground based clock.
gMp5b TIL Metallica's debut album Kill 'Em All was originally intended to be titled Metal Up Your Ass, with cover art featuring a hand clutching a dagger emerging from a toilet bowl
oWOY TIL in the 1860’s, a “perpetual motion” machine was demonstrated at the Paris Exposition. Visitors were invited to try and stop the wheel, which, unbeknownst to them, was the very action needed to “charge” the wheel back up.
QNx66 TIL Napoleon indirectly began the process of Latin American independence when the power vacuum was filled by local politiccal. Such leaders embraced nationalistic sentiments influenced by French nationalism and led successful independence movements in Latin America.
0dGay TIL Octopi are the only conscious invertebrates and have cognitive thinking abilities, individual emotions and personalities, and even form relationships with humans.