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TIL about Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. One of the earliest women’s football clubs in England. They played from 1917 to 1965, playing 833 games, winning 759, drawing 46, and losing 28. In 1920, Dick, Kerr Ladies defeated a French side 2–0, that was the first international women’s association football game.

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 3:52 pm

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TIL in 1993, there was a schism in the chess playing world, where in opposition to percieved corruption within the major International Chess Federation, several players split off to form the Professional Chess Association, leading to a time where there were two disputed world champions of chess.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 9:04 pm

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TIL Passenger pusher has been a profession since atleast the early 1900s. By the 1920s the New York pushers were known and disliked international for their aggressive nature and reputation as “sardine packers”.

by whatilearned August 31, 2022, 4:38 pm

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TIL that the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) is the only airport in the USA and perhaps the world to have a used bookstore: a branch of Renaissance Books.

by whatilearned August 22, 2022, 4:40 am

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TIL that around 20,000 to 50,000 animals are slaughtered in Nepal’s Gadhimai Festival. There will be over 200 men appointed just to slaughter the animals for the whole day. Different International media has also labeled it as the world’s largest animal slaughter.

by whatilearned August 21, 2022, 10:32 am

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TIL about the International Geophysical Year, a scientific project that marked the renewal of scientific interchange between the East and West during the Cold War. The first successful artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched for the event.

by whatilearned August 20, 2022, 2:43 am

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TIL that Salvatore Schillaci, top scorer of 1990 world cup with six goals, had only seven international goals in his record.

by whatilearned August 14, 2022, 4:29 pm

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TIL that South Africa Airways in 1967 began to use the Amílcar Cabral International Airport for its international flights Europe and America, because its aircraft were prohibited from landing in the vast majority of African countries due a boycott to apartheid.

by whatilearned August 13, 2022, 12:47 am

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In the United States we have “The South” and all its associated stereotypes. International redditors, what is “The South” of your country, and why?

by QuestionGuy August 8, 2022, 8:53 pm

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TIL that the Sword Swallowers Association International (SSAI) defines a sword swallower as a person who can swallow a 15 in/40 cm sword. The SSAI’s maximum recommended length for a swallowed sword is 33 in/83 cm

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 8:41 pm

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Hell holders no surprise for me anymore, for Satan himself has reached into the depths of my rectum, his machinations culminating in the loosening of my sphincter. Like Moses, Satan parted my cheeks, resulting in a terrible tsunami of shit to be brought upon the Pearson International airport.

by CopyPastaArchive August 8, 2022, 7:52 am

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TIL the movie Sahara (2005) was plagued with production problems which doubled its budget from $80M to $160M, lawsuits among the crew and being accused of violations of international law. It made $119M but failed to recoup its costs and is listed among the biggest box office failures of all time

by whatilearned July 31, 2022, 6:27 pm

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