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TIL British Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted to relocate an English Premier League team to Belfast, Northern Ireland to unite the community after The Troubles

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68r7 TIL In WWII, a Polish soldier volunteered to be thrown in Auschwitz and escape to prove to the Allies that the Holocaust was real.
0wn85 TIL Gino Bartali not only won the Tour de France twice, but also saved 800 Jewish lives during WW2 by smuggling counterfeit identity papers in his bike’s handlebars.
OGXGe TIL there's only 2 individuals left of the world's largest freshwater turtle - the Yangtze giant softshell
NZlb TIL If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 6 billion of us inside a single apple.
0dM6v TIL That The Script of Ferris Bueller's Day Off Includes Two Additional Bueller Children (Todd, M, 7 and Kimberly, F, 12) Who Weren't Included In The Movie