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TIL that the first African American NFL player (Kenny Washington) and the first African American MLB player (Jackie Robinson), were on the same college football team at the same time.

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1eyP TIL of the concept of posthuman god, the idea that humans of the future might be so intelligent and technologically sophisticated that their behavior would not possibly be comprehensible to current humans, in other words, that they would appear ‘god-like’ by present-day human standards
e0yk4 TIL in the Spawn comic book, Marvel and DC superheroes are imprisoned in Hell with their creators, making a meta-commentary on corporate vs indie publishers
LQL6p TIL Tallinn is the biggest city and the first national capital in the world to offer free bus services for everybody
N7bgb TIL that the sounds some lobsters make when boiling are not their screams, but rather the sounds of air escaping small crevices in their body. Lobsters don’t even have vocal chords.
WaxN TIL farmers differentiate watermelon by gender. “Boy” watermelons are longer and more watery, while “girl” watermelons are rounder and sweeter.