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TIL when Team Canada’s Olympic gold medal-winning goalie Shannon Szabados was invited to take practice with the perennial last-place Edmonton Oilers in the spring of 2014, someone asked her if she was worried about getting hit on by the players. Her response: “Nope, they can’t score anyways.”

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6xNQ TIL the way Helsinki survived WW2. In 1944 the USSR began a massive air attack on the city to force Finland to leave the war. Finns used fires and searchlights to trick Soviet bombers into dropping bombs outside the city. Russian diplomats were surprised to find an intact Helsinki after the war.
Kl09 TIL Chuck Norris was the first Westerner in documented Tae Kwon Do history to be awarded the rank of 8th Degree Black Belt Grand Master, which he received in 1990.
d8eAj TIL that mobile phone giant Gionee went bankrupt in 2018 when it's chairman lost $144 million gambling at a casino forcing the liquidation of the company
woYYo TIL that in 1947, U.S. House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn was gifted a 1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 62 from 142 Democratic congressmembers and 50 Republican congressmembers. Each congressmen donated $25 to circumvent Rayburns personal rule of not accepting gifts more than $25.
M5bb TIL that during the My Lai Massacre, an American helicopter pilot intervened and carried wounded children to safety after arguing with American forces. The US government condemned and ostracized the pilot, who ended up suffering from PTSD.