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TIL the Marshall Islands is the only sovereign nation not to have had a national soccer team.

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Wk4M8 TIL proslavery literature was written after the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' like the parody 'Aunt Phillis's Cabin' which states: "slaves are comfortable and contented, and their owners humane and kind"
VMQx4 TIL that the words Shit, Science, Ski and Schizophrenia (along with many more) all come from the same Proto-Indo-European root - *skey - which means "to split"
b6yD7 TIL in 1998 Lay's introduced fat free "WOW" chips containing a fat substitute called "Olestra." They were incredibly popular with $400 million in sales their first year. The following year sales dropped in half as Olestra caused side effects like "abdominal cramping, diarrhea, and "anal leakage"
l7p01 TIL that Spiderman 2: Enter Electro was supposed to release on September 18th, 2001, but several references to 9/11, such as the games final stage being on top of the World Trade Center, had to be completely redone
mxv9M TIL that even though Jupiter's moon Io ("EYE-oh") has no water, it still has waves. The force from the gravity of Jupiter and its other massive moons pulls Io's surface up and down on all sides causing waves of rock up to 100 meters (328 ft.) high.