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TIL that women's football was banned in England from 1921 until 1971.

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x64aw TIL that powered flight has independently evolved four times in history: in bats, birds, pterosaurs, and insects.
kEAB TIL that GCHQ complained “…a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person”, which means staff processing images harvested from millions of webcams around the world keep being faced with genitals.
W7Vyd TIL Every second the Sun becomes lighter by 4 million tons. A mass equal to Earth's burns up in 50,000 years. However, even with such extravagance, the Sun will fade out in at least 5 billion years.
mxyWY TIL: the US Gov't made a deal with the Italian Mafia to ensure that no German or Italian saboteurs snuck in through the New York port/docks by providing information to the US Navy. They also guaranteed no dockworkers would strike, therefore ensuring a constant line of supplies leaving to the front.
OGDEe TIL: A Blue Whale's heartbeat can be detected from 2 miles away, weighs roughly 400 lbs, is around the same size as a golf cart and will slow from 25-37 beats per minute to only 4-8 during deep dives