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TIL the term “soccer” was actually created and used by England prior to the term “football”

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X0PYP TIL that poet and cartoonist Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree) was also a frequent writer and illustrator for Playboy. His biographer believes he had sex with hundreds or thousands of women over the course of many visits to the Playboy mansion.
wQGo TIL Aristarcus of Samos became the first to suggest the idea that the Sun was the center of the known Universe in 300 BC. It was subsequently quickly forgotten.
awr7A TIL that great apes, including chimpanzees and orangutans, have absolutely no appreciation of music whatsoever. Research has shown they can’t tell the difference between Beethoven and Bieber, and that music is all just meaningless sound to them.
gr8b7 TIL that Simon Bolivar, "El Libertador", was actually a 33d degree freemason
vPp14 TIL that on June 12, 1942, a Beaufighter Mk.1C conducted a raid in broad daylight at very low altitude along the Champs-Élysées to drop a French flag and then attacked the headquarters Gestapo building with a rocket.