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TIL Vatican City has a national football (soccer) team.

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15LO TIL there is a type of mosquitoes called Toxorhynchites and they do not consume blood! Instead they prey on other Mosquito larvae.
J18Av TIL James Naismith, the inventor of Basketball is the only coach in Kansas Uni history to have a losing record.
DQm0r TIL in 2016 Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan created a fully-functional 18K-gold toilet titled "America" worth an estimated $6M. It was stolen in 2019 and the artist himself congratulated the thieves and praised their feat as performance art.
e0g9n TIL that the Kimba the White Lion/The Lion King plagiarism accusations are based on almost nothing.
PYYQE TIL On November 13, 1979 Ronald Reagan proposed free trade between the US, Mexico, and Canada, i.e., NAFTA. And that Reagan was a globalist and the quintessential Establishment Republican!