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TIL that the highest score in a football match was a Madagascar championship match. 149-0, and 148 of those were own goals

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gr1kL TIL Ancient pottery from West Africa have been chemically analyzed, showing organic residue of their diets. The Nok people from 3,500 years ago enjoyed quality nutrition in greens such as African eggplant, okra, cowpea and bombax, and added flavors to starch-based staples
69GYm TIL after its initial discovery and isolation in London in 1928, penicillin was first mass-produced in 1942 using mould from a cantaloupe in a market in Peoria, Illinois. Just in time to prepare for the June 1944 WWII Allied invasion at Normandy.
JYej1 TIL, aroundf 2.1 billion years ago, there existeed several multicellular organisms, that were likely one of the first forays into multicellularity, they coincided with a brief moment of increased oxygen levels and went extinct after the levels dropped, they do not have any modern-day descendants.
m1kZy TIL before the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress called the Thirteen Colonies the "United Colonies"
GYoR7 TIL it takes four days of good sleep to fully recover from just 1 hour of needed sleep lost.