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TIL I learned whale poop freshens our air

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yQ4aJ TIL after Marcelo Bielsa became manager of Leeds United FC, he found out that the average fan had to work 3 hours to pay for a match ticket. He called his players together and made them pick up litter from around the training ground for 3 hours, to appreciate how the fans laboured for their passion
VMxop TIL that actor Jimmy Stewart (Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window) was also a Major General in the United States Air Force.
xMWo TIL that in 1970, there were half as many people in the world as there are now.
4XpxJ TIL of the horseshoe theory, in which the far right and the far left in fact closely resemble one another (tendency to support authoritarian governments, etc), such that the political continuum resembles a horseshoe rather than a linear line.
kXM4 TIL that a library in Dublin puts readers in cages to prevent them from walking off with rare books