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TIL that Adidas will cancel any sponsorship deal they have with a player if it turns out he has anything to do with Scientology

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R879 TIL that one unique danger of working in a tryworks (whaling industry furnace) was that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, “ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man”
4kdD6 TIL that there are 170 million objects larger than 1mm in space, each capable of destroying a spacecraft's ability to reach a specific altitude upon impact, and with all of them moving at a speed of 10 kilometers per second.
xV5Y5 TIL Clara Barton held a clerkship in the US Patent Office with pay equal to that of men. She was the first woman to hold a position or pay of this type in government. Being wrongly fired in 1857 she returned under Lincoln as a copyist to help pave the way for future women's equality in government.
WjvA TIL student loans have passed credit cards and auto loans to become the second biggest source of personal debt in the U.S., trailing only mortgages.
yVQ1p TIL during the monsoon season, the Mekong River swells so much it forces the Tonle Sap River to flow backwards, away from the sea, filling Tonle Sap Lake, temporarily making it the largest freshwater lake in SE Asia. It’s the only river in the world that changes direction seasonally.