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TIL the first ever recorded indoor hockey game was held at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Quebec on March 3, 1875.

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69GKl TIL in 1970, 20 percent of all girls participating in high school sports across the country were in Iowa. By 1976, a few years after the passage of Title IX, that eye-popping 20 percent fell to 5.8 percent.
DWKV TIL that almost every country participates in “Cloud Seeding”, A method of increasing rainfall from a cloud. Most places use aircraft to disperse something advanced like Silver Iodide or Dry Ice, but Russia tried using Cement and accidentally dropped a 25 Kg sack of cement through somebody house.
ZpExa TIL Titanic passenger Edgar Samuel Andrew was so angry he had to board Titanic, he wrote in a letter on April 8, 1912: "... right now I wish the 'Titanic' were lying at the bottom of the ocean." Week later, his wish came true.
6EEWX TIL that Salt Lake City planners made the city blocks way too big making intersection crossings dangerous for pedestrians so now they give them big ass flags to carry while they cross!
lZkN TIL that as much as 40% of food goes uneaten in the U.S. One analysis estimates the value at $165 billion in wasted food each year.