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

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0wGbR TIL that there was a Tsunami in 2004 that killed 228,000 people. It's the 10th deadliest natural disaster in known record
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5VKRR TIL That the 16th century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus claimed to have created a homunculus (a tiny human) by placing a vial of semen in horse dung, burying the mixture for 40 days, then digging it up and feeding it his blood for another 40 days.
gM9LL TIL "Mayhem" is felony -- defined as disabling or disfiguring someone, and in 1936 an American heiress was charged with mayhem for ordering doctors to sterilize her 20-year-old daughter as punishment for promiscuity and to steal her inheritance.
rNXdd TIL Lawrence of Arabia's death in a motorcycle accident is indirectly responsible for crash helmet 'legislation for protective headgear by motorcyclists and subsequently in the workplace and for many sports worldwide'.