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TIL The only goalkeeper to ever win Ballon d'Or (worlds best player) was Lev Yashin from the Soviet Union there was a year where he played every game and only conceded a goal in 7 games

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mL8R TIL During Tokyo’s property bubble the grounds of the Imperial Palace (1.32 square miles) were valued higher than the entirety of the real estate in California
gOkD TIL the first issue of Life magazine, entitled “Life Begins,” featured the birth of a baby named George Story. A month after LIFE announced its closure in 2000, Story died of heart failure, and Life’s final issue was entitled “A Life Ends.”
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Me6LV TIL about Eugene Shoemaker. He was a geologist in the mid 1900's who wanted to go to the moon. He failed the medical exam to go to the moon, but he still helped train astronauts on Apollo 11,12, 13. After dying in a car crash his ashes made it to the moon. To this day they're still there.
KYQyG TIL France's national ensign (flag) used to be white at various points between the 1600s and the early 1800s.