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TIL that badminton actually came from expatriate officers of British India, and used to be called “Poonah”!

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PYwRZ TIL of Beirut's Grudge House. After disputes with his brother over land inherited from their father, a man built a thin, three-storey building just to hide his brother's view of the sea.
nmVP TIL during Delta Force hostage rescue training, the operators sometimes use live ammunition and the “hostages” are other Delta team members, in order to build trust and confidence among the team.
awBN0 TIL it's illegal in Italy, punishable with a fine, to tell a man he has "no balls"
ak7Z TIL that pioneer of astrogeology and founder of planetary science, Eugene Shoemaker, was a candidate for an Apollo moon mission but ruled out due to illness. After his death in 1997, he became the first person laid to rest on another celestial body, and the only human buried on the moon.
gMYxA TIL that British and Irish railways used to use "slip coaches", which were disconnected while in motion to reduce the number of stops that express trains needed to make