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TIL that "football" refers to a sport played on foot, rather than horseback, and not to how the ball is moved. (Explaining why US Football is known as such despite mostly relying on hands).

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neDWW TIL Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian tourist who joined Magellan’s historic circumnavigation around the world. Magellan himself was killed, and only 18 crew members survived, including Pigafetta — his surviving journal is where most of the information about the voyage comes from.
KOkYE TIL that crocodilians are the closest living relatives of birds
DQN6D TIL William Jennings Bryan endorsed Senator Francis Cockrell of Missouri for the 1904 Democratic nomination in expectation of Cockrell losing so badly to Theodore Roosevelt that the Democratic Party would re-nominate him (Bryan) in 1908.
Yp6PP TIL the episode of Seinfeld titled "The Revenge" when George quits his job and then shows back up to work as if nothing happened in hopes of keeping it was inspired by Larry David's real-life story of quitting his job as a writer at SNL and doing the same thing
6965Z TIL the first recreational ski club in the world was formed in the gold mining town of Kiandra in the Australian Alps in 1861.