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TIL Adidas does not sponsor players who are Scientologists

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mXey TIL Today is the 97th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Three German divisions held the ridge and after multiple American and British attempts to take the ridge, Canada captured it. It is widely regarded as the “birth” of Canada as a independent country.
9wLxD TIL: Women are more than three times as likely as men to get migraines. This is a result of hormonal differences, which begin at the onset of puberty. Both girls and boys experience migraines at the same rate as children before differences begin at the onset of puberty.
ZpaeQ TIL a KGB agent named Albrecht Dittrich spied on America, in America, for nearly 10 years, was discovered, and was allowed to remain in the USA with the FBI agent who caught him becoming his best friend.
PY5JJ TIL that Major League Baseball is the second-highest-grossing sports league in the world, only slightly behind the NFL
wLlw1 TIL In 1965, the Welsh village Capel Celyn and surrounding farms were flooded in order to make a reservoir to provide water for Liverpool despite protests from the locals and the Welsh Members of Parliament.