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TIL that the percent of of a NCAA college athletes “going pro” (becoming a professional level player) is less than 2% for all sports, except men’s ice hockey (5.6%) and baseball (9.1%)

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VM9Ek TIL about Belka and Strelka - two Russian dogs that became the first living creatures to make it to the orbit and back safely in 1960. They became very folk heroes, spawning cartoons, electronica/dance music, and even Russia's first 3D animated film.
QNZjk TIL that in World War 2 Nazis used secret codes to communicate using a machine called the Enigma Machine which would use morse code but make it very, very difficult and there was a building in England where many people were recruited to work as decoders and it would take hours or days to solve.
pPpG TIL that due to generations of healthier diet, the average American soldier was several inches taller than the average British soldier at the time of the American Revolution
69NlJ TIL in 1993, Czechoslovakia split into two countries, Czech Republic and Slovakia. It was the only (mostly) non-violent split of an ex-Eastern Bloc nation. So peaceful it was called the "Velvet Divorce"
L7w9 TIL there is a logical fallacy called the fallacy fallacy, the fallacy of overusing fallacy in the analysis of arguments