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TIL There is a National Senior League for Wii Bowling, made up of over 1,400 people on 280 teams across America.

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Vxv0 TIL that researchers believe humans have worn clothes for at least 170,000 years. They know this because pubic lice evolutionarily diverged from head lice about 170,000 years ago, and pubic lice need to live under clothing to survive.
oBjZ8 TIL that the first actor to portray Ronald McDonald was fired for getting too fat
lOD1 TIL that to reach the rank of Grand Master of Memory you have to memorize 1,000 random digits in an hour, the order of 10 shuffled decks of cards in an hour, and the order of one shuffled deck of cards in under 2 minutes.
VBoOQ TIL That when Jeanette Rankin took her seat as Montana's Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives in 1917, she became the first woman ever elected to sit in a national parliament. To date, she is also the only woman ever elected to represent Montana in Congress.
9wkQ6 TIL that 70 to 80% of hemophiliacs being treated with blood products prior to 1985 became infected with HIV