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TIL of the Ig Nobel prize, a parody of the Nobel prize dedicated to ten achievements that “first make you laugh, then make you think”, such as the 1993 award for mathematics awarded to a man who calculated the exact odds of Mikhail Gorbachev being the Antichrist (710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1)

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TIL of the Ig Nobel prize, a parody of the Nobel prize dedicated to ten achievements that “first make you laugh, then make you think”, such as the 1993 award for mathematics awarded to a man who calculated the exact odds of Mikhail Gorbachev being the Antichrist (710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1)

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TIL that an English First Division football match on the 2nd of April 1915 between Manchester United and Liverpool at Old Trafford was fixed, with players from both sides making money from bets placed on the outcome.

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TIL about Horace Voce, a Rhode Island turkey farmer who brought a dressed turkey to the White House every year for 40 years straight. His death in 1913 set off a free-for-all in which numerous farmers tried to be the one to supply the annual holiday turkeys to the president.

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TIL that feudal Edo’s police force in Japan wasn’t made only of elite samurai. Many officers came from rough, physical jobs like sumo wrestling, firefighting and labor gangs, giving the shogunate a street-tough police corps.

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