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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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X0V7X TIL vocal fry is seen as a speech affectation in English, but in some languages, it changes the meanings of words. In Jalapa Mazatec: já (normal voice) means "tree" whereas já̤ (breathy voice) means “he wears” and já̰ (with vocal fry) means “he carries”
0w08y TIL that in the 1400’s to the 1600’s the people of the Czech Republic protested corrupt politicians by throwing people out of windows, an act known as Defenestrations of Prague(the capital city of Czech.)
ne7WW TIL that the sum of all numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
QJBbk TIL about Axel Wenner-Gren, a Swedish multimillionaire who established a private island residence in the Caribbean. Rumors during WWII suggested he was giving safe harbor to German U-boats and he was investigated by British intelligence. It is believed Ian Fleming partially based Dr No on him.
o8kr TIL that engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab have developed a next-generation prosthetic: a robotic arm that has 26 joints, can curl up to 45 pounds and is controlled with a person’s mind just like a regular arm.