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TIL: At age 4, U.S woman’s soccer star Abby Wambach was transferred from the girls’ to the boys’ team after scoring 27 goals in three games.

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gME1W TIL that Soul Asylum’s "Runaway Train" helped find 25 missing children featured in the music video, but also led to a girl being returned to a "bad home situation" and a fireman discovering his daughter was killed by her mother and buried in the mother's backyard.
e0nyL TIL that when somebody rings the doorbell on Fuller House, whoever is in the living room says "It's always open!", a reference to the Olsen twins, who have repeatedly rejected requests to appear on the show
8KDZ TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.
x5XD TIL Thailand has highest number of female CEOs globally
x69G7 TIL in Communist Romania natalist policies of Nicolae Ceaușescu led to 100k+ kids into Orphan Homes where they were Beaten, Starved, Drugged, tied to own beds and spent days in own urine and feces