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TIL that Dock Ellis threw a no hitter while on LSD

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l7ZPa TIL: In South Sudan there are "Ghost marriages" where if a groom dies, he can be substituted by his brother. Any children between the two is considered to belong to the deceased. This is due to cattle inheritance reasons.
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69rM8 TIL Keiko Fukuda, a Japanese-American martial artist, was the highest-ranked female judoka in history. She became the first woman to hold the rank of 9th dan and is also the first and, so far, only woman to have been promoted to 10th dan in judo.