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TIL that Usain bolt went on a trial with Australian a league football club Central Coast Mariners in order to try and become a professional footballer

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LQDe9 TIL that The Gaumont Film Company is the oldest exciting film company in the world
eLj5 TIL whale oil was such an effective lubricant that within 3 years of the 1972 US whale killing ban, yearly automotive transmission failures had climbed from under 1 million, to over 8 million.
GYJO7 TIL that nearly 150 years later, someone was killed by a cannonball from the American Civil War
8kJb TIL scientists have found that the older a father is when his child is born, the uglier the child tends to be. However, a child with an older father is more likely to live longer than a child of with a young father.
vYAD TIL in a 2010 poll seventy-nine percent of Democrats said they support permitting “gay men and lesbians” to serve openly in the armed forces but only 43 percent, said they were in favor of allowing “homosexuals” to serve openly.