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TIL Compton has its own Cricket club, who have met Prince Edward and played a game of cricket against the staff at Windsor Castle.

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d8y79 TIL: Long periods of isolation without sunlight creates 'time-shifting' effects on the mind to the point of sleep-wake cycles being doubled.
0do0j TIL about the Springfield Three, an unsolved missing persons case from 1992 in which two friends and a mother disappeared from a home in Springfield, Missouri. Their cars and personal belongings were left behind, with no signs of a struggle except a broken porch light globe.
0wP6L TIL the Vikings are considered to be precursors of modern democracies by political scientists: men and women gathered for assemblies called "Things" (þings) where they decided on laws and punishments for crimes
1avrW TIL About Adolf Wölfli, a psychotic mental patient who spontaneously took up drawing to calm himself. His work included a monumental and epic illustrated book of 45 volumes, 25,000 pages, 1,600 illustrations, and 1,500 collages in which he narrated his own imaginary life story.
Z45a TIL in 1965, seeds that were dated to 2,000 years old were discovered in an ancient jar in Israel. The seeds were kept in storage for 40 years and after they were planted, a tree that had been extinct for over 1800 years sprouted.