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

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rNE7w TIL about the kidnapping of Katie Beers, who was 9 when she was kidnapped by family friend John Esposito and kept prisoner in a bunker underneath his garden from 1992-93. He abused her and planned to keep her there for the rest of her life, but finally confessed after 17 days and she was rescued.
Pn4G TIL In 1919 Michael Keogh stopped an angry mob of 200 men (some with bayonets) from killing two right winged political agents they were beating up. In 1930 at a Nuremburg rally, Keogh recognized one of the agents he had saved. It was Adolf Hitler.
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