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TIL the Tahitian Football League awards 1 point for a defeat, as according to the Tahiti Football President Charles Ariitoma "we don't want anyone to be sad."

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6rOm TIL that Jack Nicholson passed up the role of Michael Corleone in the Godfather. “Back then I believed that Indians should play Indians and Italians should play Italians.”
VgZm TIL a football player went to prison for five years on a phony rape charge. Upon his release she approached him saying “‘I will go through with helping you but it’s like at the same time all that money they gave [me] I don’t want to have to pay it back”
X6E8 TIL that an Orca (killer whale) can put a great white shark to sleep by turning it over on it’s back. The Orca then drowns the shark, only to eat the liver and the tounge.
jeEn TIL Glenn Beck was an alcoholic and a cocaine addict for over 15 years, was diagnosed with ADHD, and has described himself as “borderline schizophrenic”
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