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TIL a soccer team scored 149 own goals in one match protesting a controversial referee decision in previous game

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ejmD TIL the Prime Minister of Hungary during WW2 killed himself rather than be complicit when his country was forced into the Axis
lmyN TIL In Dante’s Inferno, Dante puts people he considered his enemies in the various circles of hell, even though many of them were still alive when the epic poem was published.
KLJQ TIL that NASA has a plan if astronauts “Lose It”, and that plan is to tie them up with duct tape.
8a65Z TIL A poll found that only two thirds of Americans aged 18 to 24 believed the world was round. This is partly due to a shift towards populism and distrust in the views of experts and mainstream media.