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TIL Iceberg Lettuce has a water content of 96%. This results in it having essentially no nutritional value and only trace amounts of vitamins and minerals.

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v1KeR TIL that in 1905, Chelsea FC put two small boys behind their goalkeeper, William "Fatty" Foulke, in order to accentuate Foulke's size (1.93m, 152kg) and put off opposing attackers. The boys would sometimes run and return the ball when it went out of play. By accident, ballboys came into being.
bX0a TIL that when VCRs/Betamax initially came out, TV and film studios tried to contend that recording content from your television onto tape to watch again later constituted copyright infringement. It took a 1984 Supreme Court case to finally rule it as ‘fair use’.
x6Ka0 TIL The Mental Disorder Autism Specturm Disorder was once called Asperger Syndrome named after Hans Asperger a Nazi
woXbM TIL that Belgium is the world's market leader in producing and exporting snooker and billiard balls.
b6m4p TIL there’s a dinosaur named Qantassaurus, named in honour of the Australian airline Qantas. This was after Qantas shipped the Great Russian Dinosaurs Exhibit, the largest ever travelling dinosaur exhibit, across the world in the 1990s.