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TIL that a high school basketball coach was fired after his team won 100-0 because the Catholic school he worked for thought that winning by such a wide margin did not show a “Christlike and honourable approach to competition”.

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6rNw TIL the US government poisoned alcohol as a deterrent during prohibition. This backfired when people didn’t stop and thousands of people died before prohibition ended.
gMjPX TIL Melungeons are any of numerous "tri-racial isolate" groups of people of the Southeastern United States. They did not exhibit characteristics that can be classified as those of a single racial phenotype.
neX8o TIL that Dr. Carlo Urbani recognized the emergence of a outbreak of pneumonia as a new epidemic and immediately notified the WHO, personally flying to Hanoi to investigate. He would die this day in 2003 of SARS, having triggered the most effective response to an epidemic in history.
E1gjx TIL that Oslo city council decided to forbid cars from entering the city by 2019
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