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TIL of Ernst Jean-Joseph, a Haitian who was the first player to fail a doping test at the World Cup. Haitian officials beat him up and flew him back to Haiti shortly after.

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QNRZE TIL that Josef Mengele lived out the rest of his natural life in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, operating under the names José Mengele and later Wolfgang Gerhard.
EMJP TIL a sleeping pilot awoke to see Venus in the night sky, mistook it for an oncoming plane and dove the plane down. Unsecured passengers were thrown against the ceiling.
Me1JV TIL Don LaFontaine, the guy that did basically all the movie trailer voiceovers in the 90s/00s, got into it by accident and actually ran his own production company once. He got so busy and made so much money doing trailers he left a prestigious Paramount position to take up voiceovers full time.
6VZ TIL Elizabeth Taylor suffered from a rare genetic mutation, distichiasis, that resulted in double rows of eyelashes and that usually has horrible complications.
xWlo TIL the population of Kabul, Afghanistan has grown from 500,000 in 2001 to about 4 million today after the elimination of the Taliban regime.