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TIL the British were the ones to invent the term "soccer"

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KYVMG TIL about the term “desk murderer,” a term used to describe people who plan and organize killings without personally taking part in murder.
d8YJK TIL November 19th is World Toilet Day
p8DAO TIL Alec Baldwin, Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Sally Field, Richard Gere, Katherine Hepburn, and Ashley Judd are all descendants of original Mayflower settlers.
OoeW4 TIL in 1911, 2 teenage boys with no money, no formal education or training, and no flying skills successfully fabricated, built, and flew a Bleriot aircraft. The aircraft was restored and flew again in 2012.
A7bo TIL A Native Canadian Tribe has successfully blocked Shell’s oil tar sands expansion with treaty protections signed in 1899