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TIL: Since 1199, two counties in England will annually hold a competition event called "Atherstone Ball Game", in which participants from each towns fighting over a giant football for 2hrs. The only two rules are 1. It has to be held at the certain street and 2. No killing.

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BrKPd TIL about Cachy, an ironically named poodle who fell 13 floors and fatally hit an elderly woman, killing both instantly. Edith Sola went to help and was fatally hit by a bus. Meanwhile, a man who witnessed Edith's death, had a heart attack and also died.
xd1w TIL about the Tetris effect, in which people who play Tetris for extended periods of time start seeing falling tetris blocks in their sleep as well as regularly identifying tetromino shapes in their everyday life, such as the layout of boxes on supermarket shelves or patterns on certain buildings.
8aAN8 TIL the experience of walking into a room and forgetting exactly what you came in there to do is called the Doorway Effect. Walking through an open door and entering a new room creates a "mental block" in our brains and resets the memory to make room for the creation of new memories.
lox05 TIL that a rabbit, Dory, helped save her owners life when he slipped into a diabetic coma. When Simon Steggall passed out watching TV, Dory jumped on his chest and thumped furiously. Her odd behavior caught the attention of Steggall's wife (she thought he was just sleeping) who called for help.
ZpGKG TIL: Scientists used gophers to bring plant life back to Mount St. Helens