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TIL there are more than 1 million Catholics in Saudi Arabia

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dDLvj TIL Vauxhall Motor Car Company has had its own official football team since 1963 and managed to get as high as the Conference League North, until they had to resign from it due to costs. As of now, they're second in the Northern Premier League West Division.
rNRbd TIL the famed Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group won the Air Force's first Top Gun-style competition but kept it secret until a historian uncovered it in 2005
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16xxP TIL in the 1974 NHL the Buffalo Sabres drafted a fictional Japanese player, Taro Tsujimoto, in the 11th round because their general manager was frustrated on how long the draft process was taking
jN8ZN TIL group of doctors in the US were developing a technique to buy time in treating lethal wounds by inducing the person into a state of hibernation. The procedure included replacing part of the patients blood with chilled saline solution.