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TIL that rubber ball used in modern sports from tennis to basketball to soccer came from the ancient Mesoamerican sport of ulama - a sport that saw many deaths and losers occasionally ritually decapitated.

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JVZv TIL in 1950 all Northrop Corporations Flying Wing aircraft contracts were canceled abruptly without explanation. Shortly thereafter, also without explanation, the Air Force smelted down all prototypes using portable smelters brought to Northrop’s facility, in plain sight of its employees.
6E7M7 TIL Most of your bodies serotonin (90%) is produced within your digestive track not your brain.
VdR8 TIL There is a movement occurring in a small town in Canada called ‘Save Us Bacon’ that is pushing to have Kevin Bacon come and reenact the plot of Footloose in order to end various laws against gathering in public and listening to music in public, among others.
9Y7WG TIL Deglazing: What it Is and Why To Do It. Deglazing is a fancy and intimidating word that means to pour some cold liquid into a very hot pan to get up all the brown bits stuck to the bottom of the pan. Those brown bits are where all the flavors are, and it is called “fond.”
VMvm TIL that the deadliest fire in US history was largely forgotten about, because it took place the same night as the Great Chicago Fire.