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TIL Ringo Starr and John Lennon tried to move to Texas as teenagers

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vP5EL TIL that in 1972 Scottish professional football club Dundee United played a series of friendly games in Nigeria in which they only managed to win one of them. The club's performances shocked the locals so much that "Dundee United" or just "Dundee" is now used as slang to mean "idiot" in Nigeria
epkG6 TIL that natural disasters increase fertility rates
78x TIL the arrow in the Arabic FedEx logo points to the left
ZkWQ TIL: If you’re 18-43, healthy and can stick a cotton swab in your mouth, you can join the National Bone Marrow Registry for free, and maybe, save a life.
rNVye TIL - There are 12’000 tonnes of ordnance ammunition and bombs in various lakes across Switzerland, including phosgene bombs in lake Geneva (Leman)