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TIL Victoria Football Club Northwich was founded in 1874

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MQX0 TIL the US signed a treaty in 1977 banning the use of weather modification techniques for warfare.
8LmV TIL that during the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese took several thousand wounded and sick soldiers, as well as old and feeble refugees whom they had captured, tied them up, and pushed them into a river. They then threw straw doused with kerosene into the river and burned them all to death.
OMwa TIL: The Virgin Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran.
nej5G TIL that President Carter once told a joke during a speech to a Japanese audience which caused the audience to erupt in laughter. Impressed, he asked how the interpreter managed to get such a laugh. The interpreter admitted that he had said, “President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh”
O4je TIL The most abundant mineral is 51% of the Earth but had no official name until 2014 because there was no way to get a natural sample from 400 miles beneath the surface