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TIL: Japan uses high frequency noises that only young people can hear to disperse loitering teenagers

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awkYb TIL "Irish goodbye" refers to a person ducking out of a party, social gathering or very bad date without bidding farewell. The phrase is attributed to the Potato Famine of 1845-1852, when many Irish fled their homeland for America. The distance and technology meant that they were gone forever.
ZpE9R TIL the word “football” is confusingly used interchangeably across the world. The sports most frequently referred to as simply football are Association Football (Soccer), American Football, Australian Football, Canadian Football, Gaelic Football, Rugby League Football & Rugby Union Football
nWVBG TIL Poland’s first PM was a concert pianist
oB4Z8 TIL that Charles Darwin brought back a 5 year old Tortoise named Harriet from the Galápagos Islands that would be later owned by Steve Irwin. Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176.
wLwbE TIL that in 1657 Otto von Guericke, having pumped the air from two copper hemispheres, creating a vacuum, showed that two teams of horses could not pull apart “nothing at all.”