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TIL the city of Sialkot, Pakistan makes about 70% of all footballs/soccer balls in the world

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8YPP TIL in Japan’s universal health care system hospitals, by law, must be run as non-profit and be managed by physicians. For-profit corporations are not allowed to own or operate hospitals.
JYvGl TIL: Somebody is using a retired 727 as a home outside Portland, OR
yVAwe TIL Coney Island was at one point and island and they artificially connected it to Brooklyn in the 1920s-30s
VM0Mm TIL: Goats have accents and can’t understand Goats from foreign countries because their accents are different
klXg TIL a female ferret can die if they don’t find a mate during heat. Remaining in heat for too long creates estrogen toxicity and the bone marrow stops producing new red blood cells. They essentially die of ‘the horn’