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TIL football player Jakub Błaszczykowski’s father stabbed his mother to death when he was 10 year old and he now dedicates all goals to her.

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xVRR1 TIL Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall Series, was originally a milkman that volunteered to read to blind students along his route. Dissatisfied with the selection of children’s books available, he decided to write his own and became a best-selling author.
vGdR TIL Syphilis been called the French disease in Italy, Poland, and Germany and the “Italian disease” in France. The Dutch called it the “Spanish disease”, the Russians called it the “Polish disease”, the Turks called it the “Christian disease” and the Tahitians the “British disease”.
BgdgL TIL that, while Marge vs the Monorail is considered one of The Simpsons' best episodes, many of the writing staff consider it one of the worst and the beginning of the show's reliance on absurd cartoonish plots
b6Bra TIL of St Clair’s defeat in 1791, when Native Americans supplied with British made firearms, demolished a US military force and killed 656 soldiers, in what has been regarded as one of the worst ever defeats of the US military.
P1a0w TIL the vulture population of India has fallen from 40 million to only 19,000 in just 30 years. This has been attributed to livestock being administered a drug poisonous to the bird, and has resulted in livestock formerly eaten by vultures now left to rot in fields, contaminating the water supply.