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TIL: Australia’s National Football team is called “The Socceroos”
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TIL that a reckless neurosurgeon in Texas killed and paralyzed several patients over 18 months in spite of many formal complaints of his malpractice by fellow neurosurgeons.
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TIL in 2010 a Seattle-area county council candidate named Ubax Gardheere once threatened to blow up a school bus and mocked the children who fled the vehicle as "cowards", according to court documents.
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TIL Rock and Roll was originally a euphemism for sex
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TIL that after WWII, the U.S. Congress considered a proposal to make Iceland the 49th state
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TIL American writer Jack Kerouac served on SS Dorchester which was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 3 February 1943. Kerouac would have also been on the ship during the attack, but for a telegram he received from coach Lou Little, asking him to return to Columbia University to play football.