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TIL Cristiano Ronaldo (racing heart) and Lionel Messi (growth hormone deficiency) both had health issues that could have prevented them from playing football.

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vJlR TIL that chemical castration is mandatory in Florida and California for pedophiles convicted of their second offense.
PY6kO TIL:In 1974 artist Marina Abramović displayed her performance art "Rhythm 0"-Where she stayed still for 6 hours and let guests do what ever they wanted to her with 72 items she had placed on a table. One of the items were a loaded gun. The guests started out gentle but got worse after couple of hrs.
ageJ TIL that Stephen King has directed one film, the horrendously received Maximum Overdrive. King said he was “coked out of [his] mind all through its production, and [he] really didn’t know what [he] was doing” and that he never intended to direct a movie again.
DQoBj TIL among private industry jobs with 20,000+ people & at least four reported deaths in 2021, tree trimmers & pruners had the highest rate of work-caused deaths in the US with a fatality rate 21 times higher than the typical American job.
XEyWk TIL When the British raised taxes on beer in the 17th century, they inadvertently made gin the cheapest alcoholic beverage in the country. The ensuing widespread consumption of gin led to substantial alcoholism problems in Britain, with the death rate overtaking the birth rate during this period