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TIL about a sport called Jorkyball, which is like a cross between soccer and squash

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6O8m TIL: JFK said this: ’… I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country’s peril.“ (and much more), in a speech given to the, American Newspaper Publishers Association, on April 27, 1961.
neQWP TIL Nearly 70% of the Steel used in the US is recycled from scrap. Steel used in construction has a 90% recycling Rate.
OGoGY TIL that ants can be smelled but only by some people.
VBp6D TIL in the year 1840, 95 years before the founding of AA, there was a group called The Washingtonians who believed in the power of one alcoholic helping another alcoholic recover. At its peak, the group had more than 600,000 members but drifted from its primary purpose and entirely dissapeared.
NeQb TIL that R. Kelly is illiterate.