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TIL that people in England previously called football, soccer.

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wJD1 TIL that Agent Scully was immortal by the end of the ‘X-Files’ series.
0wMOy TIL: Paper airplanes were not created to mimic real airplanes. They predate them.
VBKkD TIL at a minimum an estimated 11% of Adults aged 15 to 49 in South Africa have HIV/AIDS, with a high estimation of 23%.. approx. one in ten, to one in five people; respectively.
wNmo TIL of silent discos, also known as silent raves. These are dance parties where all of the participants are wearing headphones to hear the music. Those not wearing them experience silence, and people seemingly dancing to nothing.
8bN4 TIL: Palindrome is not a palindrome, but it is a semordnilap, which is a word that means something different backwards. Semordnilap backwards is palindromes.