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TIL that in the 2006 World Cup, during the match between Croatia and Australia, a Croatian player received 3 yellow cards before being sent off. Days later, the referee Graham Poll retired from international tournaments, citing the error as the reason

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dD0Br TIL the code "HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" is named after Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books were illegal and burned. This error can appear when the requested information cannot be shown for legal reasons, such as the web page being censored by the government.
0ddLv TIL in Icelandic folklore there's a creature, called a "Tilberi". A sorceress makes it by combining a dead man’s rib and wool between her legs, and watering it with sanctified wine from three Sunday communions. When it grows, the Tilberi sucks blood from a special nipple on the inside of her thighs.
awam0 TIL of chicken fried bacon; bacon strips dredged in batter and deep fried. Introduced in Texas in the 90's, the dish's low nutritional value has been described as: "they've taken fat, they've double-coated it in fat, they've fried it in more fat, and then they've served it with a side order of fat."
OoOR1 TIL the reason we don't dream about our smartphones is because dreams allow us to process our anxieties and fears. And with mobile phones being a more recent development, we don't see it in our dreams. Therefore our dreams are more about escaping a threatening situation than about smartphones.
VBJGB TIL about Capesize ships, the largest dry cargo ships with a deadweight tonnage of over 170,000 tons. They are called "capesize" because, until 2009, they were too large to transit the Suez Canal and had to pass Cape Horn to traverse between oceans.