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TIL Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in college athletes, especially among males, African Americans, and basketball players

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NoZ8 TIL that there are no professional female sumo wrestlers because professional sumo wrestling bans women from competitions and ceremonies. Women are not allowed to enter or touch the sumo wrestling ring (dohyō), as this is traditionally seen to be a violation of the purity of the dohyō.
DQnjD TIL Maria Rasputin, daughter of Grigori Rasputin, lived in the U.S. and worked as a dancer and a lion tamer in a circus, dying in 1977 in L.A.
BrPZL TIL of Ida Wood, who lived 24 years with her sister in a hotel room in NYC without leaving the room and any contact to the outside world
OOV7 TIL that the increase in Great White Sharks is due to the success in protecting seals and sea lions, which the sharks eat
aw9X0 TIL during a speech in Poland, President Jimmy Carter’s interpreter told the Polish people he wanted “to grasp at Poland’s private parts” when he meant he was “happy to be in Poland” and that he was “never returning to the United States” when he meant that he’d “just left the United States.”