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TIL that the word “soccer” is an abbreviation for “association football” and originated in Britain in high society circles during the 1860’s

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b64e0 TIL: People used to perform pregnancy tests by injecting urine into a frog. If the frog is female and has eggs at near its rear end after 12 hours then the woman is pregnant. If the frog is male and produces sperm, then the woman is pregnant.
6Z6W TIL that a 47yo Frenchman agreed to pay 90yo Jeanne Calment a monthly fee until she died, then take over her apartment. She would become the oldest human in history, outliving him by 2 years.
klYB TIL before starting Wendy’s, Dave Thomas worked under Colonel Sanders at KFC and even invented their widely used KFC chicken bucket
9KgD TIL Elizabeth Taylor’s apparent dark outlined eyes were due to a rare genetic mutation giving her “double eyelashes”.
GYyDN TIL in 2008, MI5 released a 14-page document warning British businesses of Chinese “honeytraps”- that Chinese intelligence would use “sexual relationships and illegal activities to pressurize individuals to co-operate with them”, to gain access to computer networks.