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Today I learned that soccer player Mark Hughes played two professional games in two different countries for different teams on the same day.

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6R8Y TIL that Oxford University predates the Aztec Empire
pY7GQ TIL torrent frogs of Africa sometimes eat other frogs, indicated by the discovery of a small frog skeleton in the stomach of one of a larger frog.
newe9 TIL that in 1950, Republican Margaret Chase Smith became the first to denounce McCarthyism on the Senate floor. She also claimed that though a GOP victory in the '52 election was needed, she couldn't support a campaign founded on "the Four Horsemen of Calumny -- Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear."
GYA8J TIL that during the Victorian Era, “female hysteria” was a catchall term for many feelings of malaise, including when a woman was horny. Doctors “treated” the ailment by masturbating the women until they reached “hysterical paroxysm”, or as we call it today, an orgasm. [NSFW]