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TIL Not only is field hockey the national sport of Pakistan, but the national team has won four Hockey World Cup championships, eight gold medals at the Asian Games, and the only Asian team to win the Champions Trophy (three wins).

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0wBLN TIL of Laura Bassi, the first woman to have a doctorate in science. She was privately tutored till she was 20, when the archbishop of Bologna noticed her talent and became her patron. She earned her doctorate at 21 by defending 49 theses before professors of the University of Bologna.
x6ew1 TIL about the ‘My Way Killings’, in which 12 people in the Philippines were killed due arguments around karaoke performances of the Frank Sinatra song. People in the Philippines now avoid the song in karaoke bars.
9xQM TIL More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks
16OWV TIL that the Batmobile is legally a character. When DC Comics sued a mechanic building replicas of Batman's vehicle, the courts ruled that the Batmobile has "physical as well as conceptual qualities" that make it distinctive, and is not merely a "useful article" (an ordinary car).
jJPQ TIL Hemmingway survived mortar shrapnel wounds, three car crashes, two plane crashes, anthrax, pnumonia, dysentry, and bushfire burns, before his eventual suicide