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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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6dOQ TIL Rick Moranis (Spaceballs, Ghostbusters, Honey I Shrunk the Kids) was a rapper
rRlPy TIL about Veronica Seider, a German woman born with superhuman eyesight who is capable of identifying people a mile (1.6 kms) away.
yQEpl TIL that the USS Scorpion was one of the four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968, which killed 318 sailors, the deadliest year for submariners since WW2.
drR8 TIL that pinball was banned in NYC as a gambling device until 1976, when Roger Sharpe testified by playing pinball in the courtroom while calling out precisely what he was going to shoot for and scoring - showing that it’s a game of skill and not chance.
E7V TIL that there’s a channel for children without commercials in Denmark. And when it’s time to go to sleep, the children’s characters go to sleep too.