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TIL Biggest NBA brawl in history left players with $11.2 million fine and caused numerous game suspensions

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p8gPZ TIL in 1965 when Gatorade was invented at the University of Florida, the football coach wouldn't let researchers experiment on the varsity team and only allowed testing on freshman (who couldn't play varsity by NCAA rule). And those players described it as tasting like urine or toilet bowl cleaner.
nxAr TIL a moment is precisely 90 seconds
xEj5 TIL Martin Scorsese’s new movie “The Wolf on Wall Street” hold’s the record for dropping the most f-bombs in a film
7rKRp TIL the highest paid state employees in most states is a state university (men’s) athletic coach.
PpDg TIL Marshall Amplifiers were basically created at the behest of Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, and Ritchie Blackmore, who persuaded Jim Marshall to start making and selling amp stacks in his drum store.