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TIL men’s tennis players use a different type of tennis ball than women

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BgEaD TIL about the North Sea Flood of 1953, when a night time storm surge overwhelmed sea defences in the Netherlands, north-west Belgium, and eastern England and Scotland, with a mean flood height of 5.6m/18'4" over sea level, resulting in over 2,000 deaths on land and over 200 at sea
xPWb TIL that it takes 10,000 to 170,000 years for the light, to go from the core of the sun to the surface
EbRV TIL Benjamin Franklin helped to create Impeachment Clause of US Constitution as he recognized that if a president were to “render himself obnoxious”, the logical yet less ideal alternative to an impeachment would be an assassination
yQ6p TIL; We use obsidian today to make precision surgical tools many times sharper than steel.
nel97 TIL That A Young Bill Gates Hacked Into The Schools Scheduling Software To Be Placed In All Girl Classes.