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TIL that three teams were disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for trying to lose their matches to secure more favorable placements in the knockout stages.

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XEvDr TIL: Theres an extremely rare condition humans can have called Hematidrosis which causes a person to sweat blood, normally under extreme physical or emotional stress.
JL88 TIL Garth Brooks stopped singing The Dance in the middle of his concert to give his guitar to a woman with cancer in the front row. She had a sign that said “Chemo this morning, Garth tonight. Enjoy the Dance”
GAnK5 TIL that Jimmy Carter was not a fan of Salman Rushdie's work and wrote a 1989 op-ed calling his book an insult
QJA4L TIL, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is of working class background, but when she was young, her family won £100,000 in a bingo competition, which allowed her to take dance and ballet lessons and attend a private school.
p86pQ TIL The Harlem Globetrotters aren’t from Harlem, but instead Chicago, IL. After its founding in the 1920’s, it wasn’t until 1968 that they played in Harlem, NY.