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TIL Rodin, the famed sculptor, didn’t actually sculpt in marble. He made sand models and his assistants, namely Camille Claudel, made the art we love.

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VBEAp TIL that Jill Ellis is the only coach - women or men - to win the World Cup as a foreign coach. Every prior winning coach has had the same nationality as the winning country.
0wkjM TIL that in the 1962 World Cup, the Chilean team ate Swiss cheese before beating Switzerland, spaghetti before beating Italy, and drank vodka before beating the USSR. Then they drank coffee before their match against Brazil but lost.
X0njE TIL about James Harrison - a blood donor in Australia whose plasma contains antibodies for Rhesus disease. His donations over 60 years have saved over 2 million babies.
BgyJL TIL about Wawpawwawqua ('White Loon'), a Miami war leader who fought against the United States, but was later excused from a Miami removal because he paid property tax. He was said to be 107 years old at the time of his death, in 1876.
JYxXQ TIL the first known flexible hose was an ox's intestines, used by the Greeks to fight fires. They used the stomach as a pump to force the water through.