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TIL One of the first soldiers to charge the beach on D-Day was a Canadian bagpiper, who only survived because he said German Snipers thought he was to crazy to shoot

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PYxOO TIL that in 1970 the fifa ball was changed to black and white (from traditional brown) so the viewer watching in b/w TV's will be able to see the ball clearly,even though the vast majority of footballs were then still brown.
nWeNr TIL that a group of Geoducks, the largest burrowing clam in the world, is called a "bag". The name Geoduck was derived from an indigenous word meaning "genitals", or a phrase meaning "dig deep", or perhaps both, as a double-entendre. So a group of Geoducks is literally a "bag of dicks"
MYy0 TIL that most muppets are left handed due to the majority of muppeteers being right handed and preferring to control the head with their dominant hand.
yQ5Ea TIL there is a fixed set of taxi drivers in New York, and it costed over 1 million dollars to buy a license as recent as 2014. Thanks to companies like uber however these licenses currently cost under $200,000 each.
yVnlV TIL that ancient India practiced advanced surgery as early as 600 BCE, including rhinoplasty and cataract surgery. click on the link and go to Ayurveda part under INDIA part