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TIL that the term "soccer" originated in England as slang representing the "soc" in "association football"

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p8e9N TIL the reason that Johnny Cash flipped the bird to the camera in the iconic photo was to send a message to the prison warden. The photographer Jim Marshall had asked Johnny to express what he thought of the prison authorities.
l8dN TIL that scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
AGkn TIL 41% of transgender people attempt suicide
W7JBB TIL who Craig of Craigslist actually is!
BgaZx TIL A billion-year-old single cell organism is showing highly complex intelligent behavior, it has no brain nor neuronal structures nor organs.