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TIL Adidas does not sponsor players who are Scientologists

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9w4pD TIL about the Welsh Christmas tradition Mari Lwyd, which entails the use of a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sackcloth, requesting (by singing) to get into people’s houses in order to get food and drinks
AN6Ed TIL that in 2004, USS Nimitz pilots encountered a "Tic Tac" UFO displaying impossible flight maneuvers like rapid acceleration and hovering with no visible propulsion. Multiple military eyewitnesses and radar data confirmed the sighting making it one of the most credible UFO encounters.
NXVKe TIL scientists don't know what makes the stones curl across the ice in Olympic curling and despite a number of studies, it remains an unsolved mystery for physicists
a8neN TIL The Green Party of 90 countries are actually related and most adhere to the same green charter in an international network called the Global Greens.
W70Ro TIL about Spintria, a small bronze or brass Roman token that usually depict on the obverse an image of sexual acts or symbols and a numeral in the range I - XVI on the reverse.