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TIL during the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, almost 67% of online abuse was found to come from North and Central America, with the main target being USA Players

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oBLKK TIL In 2012 a Georgia Apple Store salesperson denied selling an iPad to a woman because she was speaking Farsi, claiming it was against company policy to sell anything to someone from Iran.
VM0M0 TIL in the early 1900’s, King Edward VII of Wales was too fat to button the bottom button on his suit. Out of respect all his subjects did the same, and the tradition of never using the bottom button remains to this day.
WkGBX TIL that the triangular thing in oujia board is called a planchette
eE4E TIL Piss from the Maned wolf smells like marijuana and one day had police searching for pot smokers at a Dutch zoo. The officers were really just smelling wolf piss.
lorrV TIL Young Earth Creationism is a belief that the Earth and all its lifeforms were created around 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. It is a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis. Some claim Dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. Others claim Dinosaurs never existed at all.