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

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JYEDk TIL that in Churchill, Canada, locals keep their car doors unlocked in order to provide other residents a quick escape, should they encounter a polar bear
4k6jw TIL that in 1952, in order to see who would win the main role in a film called “Viva Zapata!”, actors Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn held a “pissing contest” in which the person who’d piss the furthest over the Rio Grande in Mexico would win the role. Marlon Brando was the champion.
ZpKnR TIL - LG stands for Lucky Goldstar
wxlJ TIL there is a 99 year old panhandler in Bulgaria that gives all of the money he collects to local orphanages, once giving over $24,000 in a single donation.
05dR TIL the magnitude 9.0 great earthquake that struck Japan on 11 March 2011 “was so powerful that its rumble was ‘heard’ from space. Scientists in France and the Netherlands have found that sound waves from the quake reached as far as an orbiting satellite [GOCE], 260 kilometres [161.6 miles] above.”