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TIL Football and Football are both called such because neither is played on horseback.

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X06Yk TIL that in the U.S. an employer can forbid you from having a lunch break during work.
VMw8p TIL Due to their fishy diet, sea lions are considered to have the smelliest farts of any animal
PYZmE TIL about Vickrey auction, a type of sealed-bid auction. Bidders submit written bids without knowing the bid of the other people in the auction. The highest bidder wins, but the price paid is the second-highest bid. This was first described academically by Nobel winner William Vickrey in 1961.
pY9Re TIL there is a rare disorder called uncombable hair syndrome caused by a genetic mutation that changes the hair shape from cylindrical to triangular
9wwd7 TIL about the psychology experiment that helped prove how easy it is to extract a false confession from an innocent person.