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TIL in a soccer penalty kick shootout, the team kicking FIRST wins 60% of the time.

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VB6E0 TIL: This determined California man single-handedly built a 100-foot-long superyacht in the front yard of his desert home. Now a luxury charter, the vessel was cut into seven pieces for sea trials and reassembled at the ocean
dDrQB TIL Tennis Legend Andre Agassi Admitted in His Autobiography That He Hated Tennis but Continued to Play Due to Family Pressure and Talent
9KAQ TIL Trappist beers are brewed in monasteries, most of which are located in Belgium. The beer is brewed, either by the monks themselves or under their supervision and the profits are donated to charity for social work and to help persons in need.
oB0Vr TIL the world's oldest human-made gold treasure dates back to the period between 4,500 BC and 4,000 BC is found in Varna, Bulgaria.
VBj8D TIL that "Edmond de Belamy," a portrait generated by AI, sold for $432,500 in 2018. It was created using an algorithm trained on 15,000 portraits from the 14th to 19th centuries, and the "artist" signed it with a mathematical formula.