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TIL the Brazilian football player Sócrates, was a doctor of medicine, a degree he earned concurrently playing professional football. He was also noted for being an intellectual, a heavy drinker and a smoker.

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Me6n7 TIL About Africville, the black community of Halifax that was purposefully neglected by the city in an effort to make it un-livable. Halifax denied sewage, roads, and other services, even creating a toxic waste dump nearby, eventually Halifax bulldozed the community with people still in their houses
9w8rG TIL that Elvis met Nixon in a surprise visit to gain a federal narcotics badge.
oBONR TIL The oldest known reference of the Ancient Egyptian board-game of Senet—aside from a few fragments —is in a painting on the tomb of Hesy-Ra, a member of high Egyptian court, who lived during the reign of Pharaoh Djoser around 2600 B.C.
Wkovo TIL that the famous Jeopardy "Think!" theme was composed by the show's creator Merv Griffin in less than a minute as a lullaby for his son. By 2005, he had made over $70 million dollars in royalties from that song, the equivalent of a Jeopardy contestant winning every game for about a decade.
DX5J TIL that a 17 year old survivor of the 2011 Norway attack was arrested, stripped naked and jailed on suspicion of carrying out the attack due to his alleged lack of emotion upon being rescued. He was released after the police discovered he was a traumatized survivor of the Chechen war.