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TIL A virtually indestructible soccer ball that requires no pump and never punctures has been created to serve children in poor communities or refugee camps.

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Dyov TIL North Dakota didn’t technically qualify for statehood until 2012 when a constitutional error found by a 66-year-old man was corrected.
X04OX TIL while living in a French village in the 1950s, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett sometimes drove local children to school, including a young Andre the Giant and two bonded over their love of cricket, with Andre later recalling that the two rarely talked about anything else.
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