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TIL Curling is believed to be one of the world’s oldest team sports.

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vDQK TIL that can openers were invented about 80 years after canned food
VMoWp TIL film critic Gene Siskel went to great lengths to show his contempt for the original Friday the 13th movie. He called the film’s director a “despicable creature,” published the address of Paramount’s chairman so people would write hate mail, and spoiled the film’s ending for his readers.
9xrG TIL During WWI, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks
PYBMe TIL Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient Greece due to having antifungal and antiseptic properties.
BgLdb TIL that the cloth placed over the backs of chairs in buses and planes is called "antimacassar" and it has its name from Macassar oil used for greasing hair back in 19th century. The cloth was there to protect the furniture from it.