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TIL that in the 19th century, staged wrestling emerged in circuses and carnivals, appearing as real contests. The Gold Dust Trio (Toots Mondt, Ed Lewis, Billy Sandow) in the 1920s transformed wrestling, with predetermined outcomes and storylines, paving the way for companies like the WWE today.

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Brvgd TIL while dying of stomach cancer and hospitalized in 1989. Osamu Tezuka (creator of Kimba and Astro Boy) was still able to draw tons of sketches with his pens and paper. His last words was "I'm begging you, let me keep working!" as a hospital nurse took away his pens and paper so he could rest.
xBRg TIL that it is still technically illegal to be a communist or support communism in the U.S.
0wxEj TIL that in her wedding in 1981 Princess Diana deviated from tradition and omitted the line in which she promised to "obey" Prince Charles.
X00Rj TIL that when Yoshitaro Shibasaki and his team completed their 1907 ascent of Mount Tsurugi — thought to be the final unclimbed mountain remaining in the Japanese archipelago — they found an ancient sword at the summit that was later determined to have been left there more than 1000 years earlier.
xQyk TIL the first banned book in the US was Thomas Morton’s “New English Canaan” published in 1637, which was sympathetic to Native Americans and critical of the Puritans