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TIL that Bo Jackson is the only professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in two sports.

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e0lGE TIL that the Iran women’s national soccer team fielded up to 8 men in 2015.
W7kB TIL Carl Sagan recorded a message for those who would make it to Mars. “Whatever the reason you’re on Mars is, I’m glad you’re there. And I wish I was with you.”
e0Ad6 TIL when George Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot dead his father commented "I am not surprised at all. I've expected it for quite some time." The party claimed the body over the parents, but when they wore swastikas at the funeral, the state cremated his body instead.
kOXVg Today I Learned during the Second World War, spies were given garlic flavoured chocolate before parachuting into occupied France, so their breath smelled convincingly French which helped them to blend in
VQb0 TIL of an interesting strawberry cultivar, the Pineberry. It looks like a white strawberry, but tastes like a pineapple. No, it is not a strawberry-pineapple hybrid.