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TIL that America isn’t the only country to say “soccer” instead of “football”. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and several countries in Southern Africa also do so.

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b6kJE TIL The French Canadian Shawinigan Handshake
M7eNm TIL the District of Columbia used to contain 3 municipalities. Alexandria was returned to Virginia in 1846 and Georgetown was merged with Washington in 1871.
yayX TIL the best female sniper of all time was a 24 year-old Russian WWII soldier named Lyudmila Pavlichenko. She left university in Ukraine during her senior year to begin “hunting Nazis” after the Third Reich invaded the country.
VMY7G TIL in 2016 a popular Indonesian singer died on stage after she was bitten by the snake she was dancing with. She kept performing for 45 minutes after the bite, before having a seizure, vomiting and eventually dying.
xvv1 TIL according to Norse mythology, the wolf Fernir was so powerful that dwarves created a special binding made of the roots of a mountain, the sound of a cat’s footfall, the beard of a woman, and the breath of a fish to tie him down…this is why these things no longer exist in the world