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TIL three college basketball players who appeared in Hoosiers served a three game suspension after the NCAA ruled they had been paid for playing basketball

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XEk0E TIL that after Ludwig van Beethoven went deaf, he found he could attach a metal rod to his piano and play while biting on it: this enabled him to hear through vibrations in his jawbone. This process is called bone conduction
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NWlE TIL: Scientists found a tomato plant on a volcanic island and were perplexed as to how it got there. Turns out it grew up fertilized in the poop left by a previous researcher.
N7WdJ TIL of Rosalind Franklin, a X-ray crystallographer whose discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA went uncredited for years is now beginning to finally get her due credit.
v1ZyL TIL John Lennon tried to convince Paul McCartney to drill a hole in his skull as part of a practice called trepanning explaining “All you’d have to do is just bore a little hole in your skull and it lets the pressure off. Paul replied ‘ John, you try it and let me know how it goes.'”