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TIL a soccer ball (football) was used for the first two years of basketball. In 1894 the first basketball was marketed.

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wLBPE TIL of Robert Fortune who in the 19th century was hired by the British East India Company to infiltrate China and steal their tea and reveal their tea-making process kept secret for thousands of years.
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