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TIL that King Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots.

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PYWLn TIL that turkeys will attack or attempt to dominate humans they view as subordinate
V0w8 TIL: Adrian Carton de Wiart fought in the Boer War, World War I & II, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate them. He later said “frankly I had enjoyed the war.”
nW4jo TIL The vine Boquila trifoliolata is unique because it can change the shape of its leaves to mimic those of the hosts that are supporting it.
BrYwb TIL that in 1978 Sigmund Jähn, an East German Air Force pilot, was the first German in space. He joined the crew of Soyuz 31 on a manned space mission to the Soviet space station Salyut 6. Sigmund died on Sept. 21, 2019, at age 82.
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