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TIL the oldest professional football club of any code in the world is Melbourne Demons in the AFL

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R5wy6 TIL Since the 1960s there have been more pieces composed for the recorder than in all the centuries before, despite its golden age being in the baroque and Renaissance. The Mandalorian features soundtrack of a trio of bass recorders composed by Ludwig Göransson
1ajQ8 TIL in many asian languages, the word for "4" is extremely similar to their word for "death" causing Tetraphobia - the fear and practice of avoiding the number 4
5Vxon TIL that in Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, 20% of the population has attempted suicide compared to only 3.5% of Denmark as a whole
P1EdG TIL that stargardt disease makes the center of your vision blind, making you only being able to see the sides
a86NZ TIL in 1939 the US Military produced less than 3000 planes. By the end of the war they had produced 300,000 aircraft, including almost 100,000 fighter planes.