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TIL that Al-Ahly from Egypt are the most successful football club in the world by terms of titles won (125) across all competitions. No Premier League Club even makes it to the top 10.

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pYAjN TIL: Leonard Nimoy, known for playing Spock in Star Trek, refused to participate in the animated series until Nichelle Nichols and George Takei were included. He believed their presence was essential to the show's commitment to diversity.
68mw TIL that before the Apollo mission, Armstrong and the astronauts couldn’t afford life insurance. So Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins signed hundreds of pieces of memorabilia that could be sold by their families in case of death
8MbK TIL there are series of species where species A can interbreed with species B, and species B with species C, but not species A with species C. They’re called ring species.
eprBJ TIL in the 1960s, science fiction author Stanisław Lem came up with several terms for technologies like "phantomatics" for virtual reality, "molectronics" for molecular nanotechnology, "cerebromatics" for cognitive enhancement or "intelectronics" for artificial intelligence.
ne5Rb TIL of Igor Panarin who predicted the US would collapse in 2010 into 4 zones controlled by Canada, China, the EU and Mexico.