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TIL Jai Alai is one of three sports that cannot be played left handed.

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9wk8G TIL the idea of grit made famous by Angela Duckworth's research and book on the subject has subsequently been found to be far weaker than she claimed and just a proxy for conscientiousness.
OG554 TIL about Mercy dog’s. In WWI and later wars, these dogs were trained to give aid or comfort dying soldiers on battlefields after confrontations.
OoJx7 TIL Army vet Gregory Holeman needed a ride to the hospital, but his care via the Veteran's Admin. didn't cover a 911 ambulance. He asked his sister to call a social worker but she misdialed and Jimmy John's answered; so JJ delivery driver Zack Hillmer (a U.S. Navy vet) drove him to the hospital.
lvvr TIL Ponce de Leon was never searching for the Fountain of Youth. That story was written after his death to make him look like an idiot.
4X6Zb TIL that a British POW started a hobby of stitching while in captivity. His work was so good it was hung on the wall by the German guards, not realising the secret message stitched on it. The message 'God Save The King' and 'F--- Hitler' was stitched in Morse code.