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TIL Sports floors are always made of maple wood due to its high shock resistance - it allows the floor to respond to foot traffic by bouncing back, thus helping to reduce damage and fatigue in the athletes' joints, the shock resistance also contributes to the bounce of the ball

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d8Kjj TIL because of the way bacon was being packaged -- layered so as to emphasize the meaty side of the bacon and make it seem less fatty -- the federal government intervened in 1974 by enacting strict regulations requiring that a "representative slice" be made visible through a "transparent window."
9vk7 TIL The fastest red card in football/soccer history was 2 seconds. Lee Todd was sent off for foul language after he exclaimed “Fuck me that was loud” after the starting whistle
d8448 TIL Some bars in Germany are connected by a 5 km (3 Mile) beer pipeline ..
QMnp TIL Ethiopia has 13 months, is still in the year 2005, and celebrates New Years on September 11.
e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson