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TIL Elton John owned an English soccer team and was really good at it - "in the space of seven years, the club had climbed from bottom place in the lowest division of The Football League to top position in the highest division"

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LDWZ TIL a quasar group called LQG is the largest known structure in the Universe. The group is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross it
rRA5x TIL of the “availability heuristic,” by which people judge the likelihood of events based on the number of times they hear about them. Explains why many people are pessimistic about the world given the amount of media coverage available, which favors bad news.
1aerX TIL In January 2020, approximately 518 US UFO sightings were reported to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and 468 to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Florida had the most, with 51
eEaE TIL that a Lemonade Tree is a real thing, and it bears fruit that naturally tastes like lemonade.
aBMM TIL A group of Baboons in Saudi Arabia have been caught kidnapping puppies from tourists and raising them as pets, for them to steal food to the group when they grow up.