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TIL Eriskay Football Club: the beautiful game with views to match

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W70w4 TIL Clarence J. Walker was the first African-American collegiate basketball player to appear in a post-season tournament while playing for coach John Wooden at Indiana State University
kOg17 TIL that the queen of a Black Garden Ant colony can live up to 15 years and it has been claimed that some have lived for 30 years.
ep0Jn TIL that the Mandarin Chinese equivalent of the phrase "speak of the devil" is "shuo Cao Cao, Cao Cao dao," or "speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao appears," referencing the 3rd century warlord and statesman Cao Cao.
6KmJ TIL: A Soviet pilot made a bet with his co-pilot that he can land the plane blind with curtained cockpit windows.The plane crashed at the landing strip and came to rest upside down killing 70 people.
7rQ9r TIL that the "Magic Relationship Ratio," according to science, states that for every negative interaction during conflict, a stable and happy marriage has five (or more) positive interactions