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TIL that researchers studied Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo's motor skills to determine how they score goals so consistently

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Gadj TIL that after a muti-day free base cocaine bender, Richard Pryor poured 151-proof rum all over himself and lit himself on fire. While ablaze, he ran from his Los Angeles home down Parthenia St., until being subdued by police.
kOGLe TIL: Attacking a hurricane with a nuclear weapon is a bad idea (and not just because of the obvious fallout)
AD7Po TIL the 1968 rock song In A Gadda Da Vida was intended to be "In The Garden of Eden". Frontman Doug Ingle, who came up with the song, was hammered on red wine and his band mates couldn't understand him.
ZpWPD TIL of the Lodz Ghetto, where at one point 15000 'useless eaters' deemed 'not fit to work', mainly children under 10, were rounded up and taken away from their families to be exterminated. Some families committed collective suicide.
rZVd TIL that the word homophobia was originally used to refer to heterosexual men’s fear that others might think they are gay