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TIL the American football is a prolate spheroid.

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ep6db TIL the Portuguese-Spanish border has its own name, "The Stripe".
ANMxl TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.
089y TIL that it was after Christiano Ronaldo got expelled from school for throwing a chair at a teacher that he decided to devote his life to playing soccer.
1D8P TIL that the Hindu religion states that science only offers a limited view of reality, but all it offers is right and correct, meaning that the religion by it’s nature cannot contradict science, leading to the the majority of even highly religious Hindus accepting evolution as fact.
QN7aE TIL in the TV show House, the producers originally wanted as part of the opening sequence during the theme song, to include an image of a cane and an image of a Vicodin bottle but Fox objected so they settled on rowers on a lake instead.