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TIL that 54,000 tennis balls are used at Wimbledon each year.

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R5gDw TIL Tolkien wanted to create what we would nowadays call a transmedia multiverse. "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme. The cycles should be linked and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. Absurd."
1oNV TIL there are 33,000+ PhD graduates receiving public aid in the United States.
Brnme TIL that Prisons in Brazil reduce their sentences by 4 days for each book an inmate reads and writes a report on
W7k49 TIL that FDR was 39 years old when he contracted "infantile paralysis", the contemporary name for polio
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