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TIL Saudi Arabia's special needs football team won the World Cup four times in a row

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oB5QE TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien orginally set out to just create a language. Elfish. He then figured that that language needed a history. That history needed a world etc. Which eventually led to him writing LOTR in said world.
wonL8 TIL shoulders are a muscle (yes don’t judge me 💀)
l7aeA TIL about medieval rocketry: The Sibiu manuscript dating from 16th century contains details of a multistage rocket.
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R7Mrw TIL about Police Constable Steve Hutton, who, on 2 separate occasions, barked at fleeing criminals to trick them into thinking he had a police dog with him. It worked.