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TIL that the population of Ireland still hasn’t returned to where it was before the Potato Famine

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VBO6m TIL that during the 1980 Okęcie plane disaster passengers were found to have been holding onto their seats so hard, that it led to severed muscles and tendons unrelated to the damage caused by the crash itself.
BgbW TIL Mormon missionaries can play half court but not full court basketball and can not swim. rule 55, 56, 59.
9Ow7 TIL there is a sport call Archery Tag that is basically like dodgeball, but with foam-tipped arrows.
ANLJl TIL that Nazi used to be a common abbreviation for the German name Ignaz, before Hitler was a thing. The linked historical song (1928) translates to "She has a big Nazi and a small Nazi and loves both of them" meaning a woman loving her husband and her son both named Ignaz
worn1 TIL the first female detective in the US, Kate Warne, foiled at assassination attempt against President Lincoln when she was 23