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TIL that in the early years of baseball, it was common for players to go in the stands and assault heckling fans. Ty Cobb once attacked a handicapped man for calling him a “half-nigger.” Fans shouted at him to stop because the man had no hands, he reportedly retorted “I don’t care if he got no feet”

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D1MRJ Til - from 1741 - 1751 Maratha empire attacked Bengal Subah six times resulted close to 400,000 people in Bengal and Bihar killed where most attack was plundering villages which considered to be among the deadliest massacres in Indian history.
EYEx TIL that the Battle of Gettysberg, the bloodiest and most significant battle of the American Civil War, ended 150 years ago today.
6dmX TIL Canada has the longest coastline in the world at 125,567 miles (202,080km)
OOYY TIL That the man responsible for leaded petrol, Tomas Midgley Jr, “had more impact on the environment than any other single organism in Earth’s history”
dByr TIL of Andy George, a man who spent 6 months hand growing and raising every ingredient to make a sandwich. After a rough cost of $1,500, he says it was the pickles and mayo that threw off the final product.