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TIL The worlds oldest football was discovered behind panelling in the Queens Chamber within Stirling Castle, Scotland and is believed to have belonged to Mary Queen of Scots around the 1540’s.

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697vJ TIL that when Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes, he was working as a doctor in the NHS. On the day he broke the record, he had already worked a morning shift at St Mary's hospital in London, and then caught the train to Oxford where he ran the race.
ADvv7 TIL Isaac Singer, the inventor of the Singer Sewing machine had 24 children across the USA, UK and France. Six of these children came from a relationship with Isabella Eugenie Boyer, a 19 year old French woman that the Statue of Liberty was based on. He left $13m estate to his 20 surviving children.
kgPE TIL a study found that drinking coffee may “undo” liver damage. Researchers analyzed data from nine previously published studies with a total of more than 430,000 participants and found that drinking two additional cups of coffee a day was linked to a 44% lower risk of developing liver cirrhosis
D1rdp TIL Mao Zedong's English interpreter Ji Chaozhu moved to New York in 1939 at age 9, to avoid the war and spent a year at Harvard before returning to China in 1950. He worshipped Mao and remember the Chairman as “serene,” “regal,” and “mentally far away, at peace.”
b6lej TIL: Horseshoe crabs have 10 eyes scattered across their head and tail, some of which are significantly different in function from one another.