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TIL that the first female referee in a UEFA-sanctioned football game was Nicole Petignat, the match was AIK(SWE) vs Fylkir (ISL). AIK won 1-0

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XpWr TIL: In 1991, a crowd of hundreds of people tried to play a single game Pong on a big screen, and quickly learned to do it successfully (Loren Carpenter experiment)
4Xn7R TIL about sickle (or scythe) trees, in which scythes are often found embedded, from when men hung them in trees before going to fight the Civil War
kOk6E TIL: When interviewed, a 70 year old man, who was once a feral child that lived alone with wolves in the mountains between the ages of 7 and 19 stated "he was disappointed in human nature and wished he could return to the mountains and leave society"
QN8yL TIL in 1761 after a shipwreck, 60 slaves were abandoned on an island with the promise of being rescued. They were later forgotten. 15 years later they managed to rescue the remaining survivors: 7 women and an 8 month old baby. They managed to keep a fire burning for 15 years.
EgJJp TIL that animals and plants can be "cosmopolitan", meaning they are found all over the world. For example, rails are a cosmopolitan family of bird.