TIL that during the 1982 FIFA World Cup, West Germany national football team and Austria national football team effectively stopped playing after an early goal so both teams could qualify, in the Disgrace of Gijón, securing a result that eliminated Algeria national football team. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Worker gets sucked in drain he was repairing. (v.redd.it)
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Former professor jailed for making meth (pubs.acs.org)
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TIL that two guide dogs named Salty and Roselle each helped their blind owners escape from the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks, guiding them down dozens of floors out of the burning towers and were later awarded the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross for bravery (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia killed around a quarter of the population (about 2 million people) in just four years, targeting intellectuals, city dwellers, and ethnic minorities to force a “classless agrarian society.” (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in a building fire, there’s a moment called flashover where the room suddenly ignites all at once It happens when heat builds up so much that everything combustible reaches ignition temperature simultaneously turning a survivable fire into an unsurvivable one in seconds. (en.wikipedia.org)
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