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TIL Domestic Violence increases on average 25% during the world cup

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6Ee6X TIL in 1941 a Dutch Navy ship escaped the Japanese by being disguised as an island and only sailing at night. It went from Indonesia to Australia without being detected.
0wYnN TIL: Saundra Williams was the first Miss Black America
xROg TIL that 20/20 vision isn’t actually “perfect”, and that professional baseball players average around 20/12 vision; greater acuity than conventional eye charts test for.
16eQD TIL after being signed to a record label at the age of 12, Aaliyah's uncle introduced her to R. Kelly who ended up being lead songwriter and producer of her debut album; Age Ain't Nothing but a Number
bNkp TIL Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi who was considered to be the most powerful woman of the classical world, has had almost nothing recorded about her process because authors from the period treated it as common knowledge with no need to explain.