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TIL the Australian women’s national soccer team played a team of 15 year old boys to prepare for the summer Olympics in Rio and lost 7-0.

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DXXr TIL- Only 115 of the 800,000 reported “missing children” in the US is the result of a “stereotypical kidnapping". Most kidnappings in the US are by family members, often as a result of a custody dispute. Children are 20x more likely to be killed by a family member then by a stranger.
v4o4 TIL that Robert Zemeckis was so frustrated with the cliffhanger ending of The Empire Strikes Back that he purposely put the trailer & release date for Back to the Future 3 at the end of Back to the Future 2 so that the audience would know that the story would be completed in six months.
mxY1p TIL Australia once had a tumbleweed so large they named it "hairy panic"
QpvX TIL Psychopaths tend to have a poor sense of smell
9wZPX TIL that a researcher called Celia Sanchez-Ramos invented a biometric system that authenticates identity through the cornea instead of through the retina, which can allow for an identity match in under a second