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TIL during the Argentina-Brazil match during the Italy 1990 World Cup, a Brazilian player was drugged with contaminated water by the Argentinean team.

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8Z0V TIL that the Empire State Building only took a little over a year for its construction to complete (410 days — twelve days ahead of schedule).
nenQo TIL A review of decades of research shows children of same-sex couples are doing just as well as kids of heterosexual couples across a number of wellbeing measures, including academic performance, cognitive development, social development, and psychological health.
Me5R7 TIL that in 2017 to AI chatbots created their own language to negotiate with each other
6ZNJ TIL Jellyfish live in every ocean, and have survived five mass extinctions, for possibly 700 million years or more, despite most of them lacking specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or circulatory systems.
R5lO8 TIL that the backup singer for Guns N’ Roses’ “Don’t Cry” is Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon.