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TIL Pickleball was actually created back in 1965.

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Y7xLx TIL that a full reproduction of the Sistine Chapel ceiling is in a small town in Sussex and that it was hand painted by a sign-painter who never went to art school
Qena TIL when a US Navy ship returns from deployment the first sailors allowed off the ship are sailors whose wives gave birth while they were away
0d7j1 TIL that the legend of Saints Barlaam and Josaphat is inspired by the stories of the Buddha. This legand also inspired Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."
l7EK5 TIL that Alaska and Hawaii have the same record high temperature (last paragraph of article)
wkxP TIL As a struggling young writer, Harper Lee once got a year’s wages as a gift from a friend with a note, “You have a year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” She wrote To Kill A Mockingbird.