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TIL that the English football league system has 24 levels made of 140 leagues and 480 divisions, comprising around 7,000 individual clubs (or teams). Theoretically a level 24 team can be promoted all the way to the Premier League.

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m10Ro TIL between 1400 & 1782, around 40k-60k people were killed on suspicion of practising witchcraft, primarily in Europe. Some witch hunts would last for years and some sources estimate 100,000 trials occurred. Some regions burnt the suspects at the stake, of whom roughly 80% were women, most above 40.
1WV4 TIL that a mild electric shock to a persons brain can improve their maths skills for up to six months. This could help treat the nearly 20 percent of the population with moderate to severe dyscalculia (math disability).
R0E4 TIL that a Brazilian diplomat in Hamburg handed out visas to jews during WWII without identifying them as such, defying the Brazilian policy
pY84O TIL about the Cat Gap, a 7 million-year period from 18.5 million to 25 million years ago when cats became rare or nonexistent in the fossil record in North America
KOdd4 TIL during the making of ‘Borat,’ the police were called 92 times on Sacha Baron Cohen.