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TIL that no one really knows the origin of the scoring system in Tennis

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Me7eW TIL that Abraham Lincoln (yes, THE Abraham Lincoln, the president of the USA) was a wrestler in his youth and that he invented the chokeslam (the chokeslam is not mentioned in the article).
VBMD TIL some doctors in China get paid when you’re healthy but don’t get paid when you’re sick (because it’s their fault for not keeping you healthy)
LkY1r TIL in 1913, a study was published on "the feeling of being stared at". It was found to be groundless, attributed to you being nervous about how you look when someone's looking at you.
N7oJN TIL of the oldest known strike. On this date in 1152 BCE, the artisans of the Royal Necropolis at Deir el-Medina walked off their jobs because they had not been paid. The Egyptian authorities raised the wages.
R5VxQ TIL that the premise of the movie Sunshine, a crew of space voyagers trying to revive fading sun with an artificial explosion, had been used in literature as early as in 1931.