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TIL that UK postal codes are so specific, some codes can translate to individual houses

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0dPdR TIL that FIFA restricts the Olympics men's soccer teams from including players 23 or older to prevent elite players from participating. Women's teams in the olympics have no such restrictions.
E1L9W TIL: President Nixon, wife Pat, and Henry Kissinger took lessons and practiced for months to learn to use chopsticks properly, in preparation for the dinner banquet on his visit to China in 1972.
5YxwQ TIL that the Salem Witch Trials could have been just a really bad LSD trip as the rye bread they were eating was contaminated by a fungus called ergot which caused the consumer to spasm or hallucinate, leading people to blame witchcraft.
RD8l TIL that Patrick Stewart has said that playing Jean-Luc Picard changed him as a person. “…I suppose [he] even had some influence on me. I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean-Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.”
Dr8V TIL there is a sect that wants to clone Hitler in order to bring him to justice. They also beleive that aliens created life on earth.