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TIL golfer LPGA founder Patty Berg won 15 majors and was also a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve during World War II, and, as a teen, played quarterback—and was the only girl—on the 50th Street Tigers football team in Minneapolis

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1aNa8 TIL that an English player pooped himself during a game at the 1990 world cup, wiped on the pitch and kept on playing.
LkPQ9 TIL that the famous fossil Lucy was named after the Beatle’s song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was playing in the palaeontologist’s camp when she was unearthed
p86ge TIL about work grunting, aka worm charming. A sport, past time, and subsistence strategy practiced in many cultures around the world.
pY0o8 TIL about "Project Iceworm", a top-secret 1958 $2.7 billion U.S. plan to convert part of the Arctic into a launchpad for nuclear missiles, including a nuclear reactor. Due to shifting Greenland ice sheets, the plan was scrapped in 1967, & the massive underground structure thereafter collapsed
PokE TIL Rick James’ autopsy found alprazolam, diazepam, bupropion, citalopram, hydrocodone, digoxin, chlorpheniramine, methamphetamine, and cocaine in his blood.