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TIL Football has roughly 11 minutes of actual play time.

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5YAa8 TIL Doune Castle in Scotland, where Monty Python filmed "Holy Grail" movie, rents coconut shells to tourists
4kW4b TIL Labubu is in fact NOT slang for libido
9pdG TIL that Julia Child kept her phone number listed publicly. Anyone could just call her at home for cooking advice. Apparently on Christmas and Thanksgiving her phone rang nonstop and she took every call. What a woman!
7l67 TIL Luxembourg’s gold medal at the 1952 Olympics was so unexpected that the organisers had neglected to give the band a score for their national anthem. The musicians “hurriedly improvised a tune which bore little resemblance to the Luxembourg anthem”.
Wk98 TIL George Steinbrenner caught and detained a 16 yr old who was spray painting Yankee Stadium. He then had the kid be batboy for the night leading to a career as a Yankee executive and best selling author.