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TIL: This year the NFL has banned gene doping, players cannot modify their DNA to enhance performances

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xEeg TIL the average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 8 days of combat in a year. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year.
VMpAG TIL George Reeves (1950s Superman) insisted Phyllis Coates (Lois Lane) be given equal billing.
R77Mw TIL (organic) sponges are animals - not plants.
AP4 TIL the actual normal human body temperature is 97.9 °F, not 98.6 °F (as is commonly cited), because someone rounded before converting their units.
vPyR7 TIL in 1984, at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, two Iranian judges physically assaulted the Swedish judge during a session of the tribunal. Proceedings were suspended and the tribunal later resumed work with two new Iranian arbitrators. (see footnote 18 on page 309)