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TIL that Olympic champion Franco Testa quit cycling to become a butcher.

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JLk1 TIL that the flashes of color you see in your eye after you rub them are called phosphenes.
YpvGr TIL as women enter middle age, they experience a rapid decline in facial attractiveness (regardless of cultural beauty standards) as compared to their male counterparts which scientists believe mirrors their quickly diminishing fertility.
VBd9D TIL Henrietta Wood who was enslaved in the American South until her owner, Jane Cirode, took her to Ohio in 1844. After being re-enslaved in 1853, Wood successfully sued her captor, Zebulon Ward, in 1869 and was awarded $2,500 – the largest slavery restitution in U. S. history.
KONV9 TIL: the city of Venice was founded as Italians hid in the marshes and lagoons to hide from the invasion of Attila the Hun
lo5kA TIL that in 1941, before the US entered WW2, many Americans mailed tea to Buckingham Palace as a show of support to England. The Queen sent them all thank you notes.