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TIL the 2026 World Cup will be the first Cup to host 48 teams instead of the usual 32.

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yQgBJ TIL 50% of American adults are incapable of reading a book written on an eighth-grade level.
vZ7L TIL NASA plans to grow plants on the moon next year.
9Z77 TIL that a mild electric shock to a persons brain can improve their maths skills for up to six months. This could help treat the nearly 20 percent of the population with moderate to severe dyscalculia (math disability).
9oO7 TIL that for all the hysteria, peak membership in the Flat Earth Society was 3500 people in the late 90s
Pp5w TIL in Iran it is forbidden for women to ride traditional bicycles in the belief that it is a sexual stimulant and “causes corruption". Women riders are attacked by vigilantes. The Iranian version of the Islamic bicycle has a “boxy contraption that hides a woman’s lower body.”