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TIL Blind people don’t see black, they literally see nothing

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VMPPG TIL the oldest documented club dedicated to football in the world was the Foot-Ball Club of Edinburgh (1824- 1841), and surving records describe a match involving 39 players and "such kicking of shins"
QMo6 TIL internet spam costs society $20 billion per year and only generates $200 million in revenue
5D7P TIL: Lou Pai a former Enron executive who cashed out $280 million in stock and left the company right before it collapsed, divorced his wife, married an exotic dancer, bought a ranch in Colorado for $12 million and later sold it for $60 million. He has never been charged with any criminal wrongdoing
wLZJM TIL in antartica, scientists recently found fossil fragments of 13 trees that are over 260 million years old, meaning that this forest was growing at the end of the Permian Period, before the first dinosaurs. At that time, Antarctica was still at the South pole
Mev0m TIL about the battle of bamber bridge 1943 an out break of racial violence between black and white american military personnel due to the white MPs trying to enforce jim crow laws the 3 pubs in the town responded by putting up signs that said black troops only