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TIL the British were the ones to invent the term "soccer"
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TIL That Steve Jobs died of Pancreatic Cancer because he choose alternative healing methods instead of having surgery to remove the tumor.
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TIL that Pope John Paul II nominated Saint Isidore of Seville, a Bishop and Scholar, as the patron saint of the internet because he tried to record everything that was known in his 20 book opus Etymologies/Origins.
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TIL the game of checkers dates as far back as 3,000 BCE, with boards and pieces having been found in the ancient city of Ur. Checkers artifacts have also been found in ancient Egypt, dating back to 600 BCE.
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TIL that Lithuanian politician Artūras Zuokas won an IG Nobel prize in 2011, for “demonstrating that the problem of illegal parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with a tank”. Zuokas had used an armoured vehicle to run over an illegally parked car in a Vilinus bike lane.
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TIL that Red Delicious apples were genetically engineered to look great, with no regard for taste.