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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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awgbN TIL of James Martin Stagg, a meteorologist for the allies in WW2 tasked with finding the day with the right conditions for the D-Day invasion. His team and him predicted that the weather would clear up on June 6th, which the Germans didn’t predict. He was right and D-Day was successful.
m4eY TIL that according to Hindu mythology, the first avatar of Vishnu was a fish, the second a turtle, the third a boar, the fourth a half man-half lion and from fifth to ninth, human. The tenth avatar will come in the future and destroy the world.
R7Zwa TIL when The Kinks were being formed, Rod Stewart was briefly considered as the group's singer, being a schoolmate of three of their members.
BXeW TIL: The ‘Mad Men’ Writers Are Working on a Show About NASA in the '60s
ar5A TIl A Polish Soldier Saved a Village From Nazis by Creating a Fake Epidemic