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TIL that FIFA referees typically run 6 to 8 miles per game. All while scrutinizing plays and communicating with players and other officials.

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VMjv4 TIL the song "Blackbird" was inspired by the racial tensions in the US in 1968 as a symbolic way to support the efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. McCartney underlined also that “bird” is a British slang often used for “girl”, which would make “blackbird” become “black girl”.......Also, Bach....
Q4bk TIL in May of 1945, a Sunday School Teacher and 5 children became the only Mainland Casualties of WWII when they found a Japanese “Balloon Bomb” in Rural Oregon. The last words of the Teacher were: “Look what I found, dear”
eKZ5 TIL The only time the letter Y is a vowel is when your tongue doesn’t touch your palate (roof of mouth). If it does then it is a consonant. examples being yellow = consonant, sky = vowel.
pY0KG TIL that the Uranus Fudge Factory is a real place and not just a joke from memes.
Qeda TIL researchers repeated 100 studies published in three top psychology journals, and got the same results only 36 times