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TIL that there was a 12 year ban on athletes with intellectual disabilities competing in the Paralympic Games because of the Spanish Basketball Team cheating in the 2000 Games by having 10 members pretend they had a disability.

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kOgxE TIL The anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin was a military officer turned geologist. In 1871 Kropotkin explored the glacial deposits of Finland and Sweden. In 1873, he published a map and paper in which he showed that the existing maps entirely misrepresented the physical features of Asia.
glDL TIL the Rolling Stones hit Brown Sugar was originally called Black Pussy but changed for being to direct
4Xe4X TIL of a woman known as Patient S.M, who has no amygdala, which is the part of the brain responsible for fear. As a result she is unable to feel fear or read negative social cues, and doesn't understand personal space. The only time she ever felt fear is when a test was held replicating suffocation.
rlWe TIL Albert Einstein once took a cab home but forgot his address. He asked the cab driver, who didn’t recognize him, if he knew Einstein’s address. The driver said everyone in Princeton knows that address, to which Einstein replied, “I am Einstein. I forgot my address. Can you take me there?”
d88RK TIL that Joakim Brodén, co-founder of the Swedish power metal band Sabaton, once made a drunken bet with his bandmates to travel to his next gig at Trondheim, Norway on foot. Starting off at Falun, Sweden, this was a 350 mile journey and Joakim even had fans help him along the way.