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TIL that a 13-year old man from Sweden named Mats Wermelin scored 272 points in Febuary 5, 1974 in a tournament in Stockholm, which is considered a Guinness World Record

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g48L TIL: “Teardrop” by Massive Attack was chosen to be the opening sequence of House because the song roughly mimics the sound of a beating human heart.
R5Rja TIL about Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American film star. Her career began in silent movies era and continued to her death. One of the first to adopt the flapper style of the 20s, she was voted “world’s best dressed woman” in 1934. She will be featured in the American Women quarter series.
Lk6Yv TIL that in former US President Gerald Ford’s senior year as a football player at the University of Michigan, when Georgia Tech refused to play if a black player named Willis Ward (and Ford’s best friend on the team) took the field, Ford threatened to quit the team in response
EaN0 TIL Scorpion Venom is the most expensive liquid on earth, at almost $39 million a gallon. Next closest on the list in king cobra venom at $152K a gallon with LSD close behind at $122K a gallon
dvNd TIL when the allied forces were signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the Canadian general blind in one eye mistakenly signed below his signature line, forcing every person after him to sign one space below. The Japanese found it unacceptable.