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TIL that a top-level Dutch football club signed up an 18-month old for a ten year contract, after his father posted a video of the boy kicking a ball into his toy chest 3 times in a row. After scribbling his signature for the club, the toddler celebrated with a glass of orange juice

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PYxJn TIL of Vera Lynn, a British pop singer who entertained troops during World War II. In 2017, she released a new album to celebrate her 100th birthday, making her the oldest recording artist in the world and the first centenarian to have an album in the charts.
DQnBg TIL that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortes had lost much of his veteran forces (who knew how to fight the Aztecs) and was in a desperate situation, when smallpox began to turn the tide in his favour by killing many fit young Aztec soldiers and hitting the Aztec hierarchy hard.
WXG4 TIL that when Princess Diana was stripped of the title “Her Royal Highness,” a young Prince William told his mother “Don’t worry, Mummy, I will give it back to you one day when I am king.”
4XdXJ TIL that an animal shelter in Maricopa County, Arizona, has a program where you can spend your 4th of July comforting the animals and keeping them calm during the loud fireworks.
E1amW Today I learned of the California case Lodi v. Lodi, where a man sued himself, represented himself, and won by default after he failed to show up. The court wrote that “it is hard to imagine a more even-handed application of justice,”.