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TIL that Women's football was banned by the Football Association in the UK from 1921 until 1971

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D1KMP TIL about CONPLAN 3551-09, a us military plan to combat a pandemic level outbreak of Influenza.
6951w TIL of Triboulet: a Royal jester for King Francis of France who was sentenced to death for mocking the King and Queen. King Francis allowed him to choose his method of death, to which Triboulet responded “… I ask to die from old age.” He was spared and instead banished.
dGOK TIL that there are actually eight words in the English language that contain all five vowels in order (a-e-i-o-u): abstemious, facetious, arsenious, abstentious, acheilous, anemious, caesious, and annelidous.
p81LG TIL professional clowns can patent their look by painting it on an egg.
5KZp TIL That Andre Royo (the actor who plays Bubbles in The Wire) was so convincing at playing a drug addict that during on-location filming he was once given a small package of heroin by a local resident, who said to Royo “Man, you need a fix more than I do.”