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TIL that football (soccer) pitches, even at the highest level of competition, are not standard in size

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a8Po TIL During the filming of a scene in the movie Leon: The Professional involving all of the police cars on the street, a man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he encountered the movie set by accident, he saw all of the “police” and gave himself up to a bunch of uniformed extras.
9nnQ TIL: France and Netherlands share a land border . It’s in the Caribbean on Saint Martin - the smallest inhabited island divided between two countries
yQv9e TIL of Rope Memory where women would weave SOFTWARE by hand for the Apollo program
NRLe TIL Marty Robbins, singer of Big Iron, raced in NASCAR. In the 1972 Talladega 500, his laps were 15mph faster than his qualifying time. After the race, he turned down the Rookie of the Race award and admitted that he removed the carb restrictor “to see what it was like to run up front for once.”
5YPvB TIL in the mandrill species, if a beta male wins a fight, then it gradually transforms into an alpha male - gaining larger testicles, more colorful skin, and the ability to produce offspring with females. If an alpha male loses a fight, then the reverse happens.