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TIL the study and collection of postcards is called deltiology. The term was coined in 1945 from the Greek word "deltion", meaning "small illustrated tablet or card".

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yVZEp TIL Malaysian footballer Mokhtar Dahari received an offer to play for Real Madrid but he refused to accept the offer. Instead, he continued to play for Malaysian club Selangor F. C. as he prioritised patriotism and love for his home club of Selangor.
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vnQR TIL Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock’s capture. There was no way out and anyone who died within the chamber would have to be embalmed and cemented into the floor.
VMbRQ TIL Wilt Chamberlain's record setting 100-point game on March 2, 1962 was not televised (and no video exists of it as a result); only two different audio recordings from a radio telecast made by two different people (which were combined by historians) survives today of that game
wLyZW TIL that when Henry Ford doubled the pay of his auto workers from $2.50 per day to $5, he didn't do it for altruistic reasons. His factory had one of the highest turnover rates (due to danger of the assembly line and tedium of the work). After the raises, it dropped to the lowest.