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8aPQZ TIL Florida statute mandates a free education in any trade apprenticeship.
ADoLl TIL in the 1870s, the city of Liège, Belgium hired 37 cats to deliver mail. It was unsuccessful.
GA6y4 TIL that the comedian who played the count on Takeshi’s Castle (MXC) in the 80’s went on to become one of the most critically acclaimed writers and directors in the history of Japanese cinema, being called Akira Kurosawa’s “true successor”.
GoBN TIL that when medieval Islamic scholar al-Biruni was trying to determine the exact position of qibla (the Muslim direction for prayer), he realized that a vast span of Earth’s land was unaccounted for in the modern maps of the time. This turned out to be the American continent.
j6y9v TIL the fastest ball ever bowled in cricket was 161.3km/h or 100.2mph by Shoaib Akhtar against England during the Cricket World Cup, 2003