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TIL Soccer balls were originally black and white so they were easy to spot on television.

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QNdp9 TIL that in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a horse race at Belmont Park while being dead. He suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle, and the horse crossed the finish line in first place.
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Vx9Z TIL - Emilia Clarke once did a cameo for Futurama playing a character that didn’t have a sense of smell and fell in love with Zoidberg
nNAb TIL Archaeologists found the other half of the Mayan calendar in May
BgBPb TIL the Reverend Wilbert Awdry invented some stories about trains as a way of entertaining his son who had measles, one of the trains was called Thomas the Tank Engine