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TIL roughly 70% of businesses in Sicily still pay protection money to the Sicilian Mafia.

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Jlev TIL Max Woosnam captained Manchester City football club and England, scored a century at Lord’s, played golf off scratch, won Wimbledon and Olympic gold in tennis, made a 147 break at snooker and beat Charlie Chaplin in table tennis with a butter knife.
1abOW TIL Hitler suffered from presbyopia and secretly wore reading glasses. He avoided to be seen in public with glasses as he believed they would compromise his ability to capture people by means of mimic, gestures as well as of his expression
neJ0P TIL that Notre Dame has about 180,000 bees living on its rooftop and they all survived the 2019 fire.
gM474 TIL that "Spandex" is just an anagram of "expands", and was designed by a chemist at DuPont in the 50's.
nW0Ad TIL, during a set at the 1995 US Open, tennis player Shuzo Matsuoka collapsed from severe cramping for several minutes and was defaulted for delaying the match. The incident led to a rule change in professional tennis to allow players to receive medical treatment during matches without forfeiting.