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TIL that soccer balls got their traditional, hexagonal, black-and-white Telstar design so that the ball could be more easily made out on black and white Television

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NXrK1 TIL that with a median age of only 15.2 years, half the population of Niger is too young to remember the last military coup in 2010.
Me5OV TIL that we don't actually know how general anesthetics work, or how they are able to induce unconsciousness without shutting down other body or brain functions
YpGAG TIL John Williams created the original theme song for Lost in Space
W7M6A TIL Grover Cleveland first met his future wife while she was still an infant, and he bought her her first baby carriage.
P1AYe TIL about the Great Sheep Panic of 1888 where tens of thousands of sheep, in an area of 200 square miles, simultaneously broke out of their enclosure and looked like they were terror stricken