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TIL that new authors only need to sell around 10,000 books to become a New York Times Bestseller

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D1wdj TIL about 20,000 year-old fossilized human footprints that were discovered in Australia. Those footprints indicated that the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, which he did by running on sand while being barefooted.
K0aJ TIL the creator of the BMI was a mathematician, not a doctor.
MeBom Today I learned that Soccer was actually coined and originally used by the English for over a century and they are the reason that Americans call Football Soccer today.
7rkoO TIL in the 1940s baseball umpires were called “guessers.” Anyone who questioned their calls were known as secondguessers, which is how the word second-guess was introduced to the English language.
pEG TIL George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany and the family was later sued by Auschwitz survivors.