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TIL Hockey players score higher in spatial skills than than any other athlete.

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GyE4 TIL in 1987, Christian missionaries visited an isolated Brazillian tribe that had not had hardly any contact with the outside world, and in the process introduced viruses that caused 25% of the tribe’s population to die in the following six years.
OGY1e TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life
5P68 TIL in 1952 due to unsual weather patterns, a large amount of smog from nearby Coal plants collected over London for a series of 4 days, killing an estimated 12,000 people
nZl9 TIL Olympic gold medals are only 1% gold and 92.5% silver. They would be worth over $25k if they were pure gold but instead the medal value is only approximately $600.
grXay TIL George Clooney is the nephew of José Ferrer, the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.