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TIL high school sports is something that is unique in the US. In most countries in the world, schools don't have sports teams.

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9Yb9p TIL if you could drive your car to space (at 60 mph / 97 kph) it would take 1 hour to get there and under 6 months to get to the moon
LQb00 TIL a young couple in Japan divorce and remarry each other every 3 years to take turns using their family names, all because they can't come into agreement on which last name to use.
69oeQ TIL Jonas Salk, Who Invented the Polio Vaccine, Could Have Been the Richest Person in the World If He Had Patented It, but He Chose to Give It Away for Free
xVn8k TIL that Steven Seagal was a Russian envoy to the US in 2018
ae4o TIL that Ohio has voted for the winning president in over 92% of the elections the state has voted in.