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TIL Futurama writer Ken Keeler invented and proved a mathematical theorem strictly for use in the plot of an episode

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J8AV TIL that the fastest 9-year-old today could have won bronze at the 100m sprint at the 1896 olympics.
MXQ7 TIL While campaigning for a third term, Teddy Roosevelt was shot and instead of treating the wound he delivered a speech with a bullet hole in his chest.
4kyNR TIL about Scottish inventor, James Bowman Lindsay. In 1835, Lindsay demonstrated an early version of an electric light in public - predating Thomas Edison's invention by decades.
v1W6j TIL in 2013 a Brazilian football referee was killed and beheaded by spectators after he stabbed a player to death.
AN9J4 TIL Judge Alex Kozinski, who ruled on the early 2000s Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. (Barbie Girl song) dismissed the case; concluded his ruling by saying, "The parties are advised to chill”.