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TIL the Baseball Hall of Fame has never paid a dollar to acquire a single item

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d8jn8 TIL, Sea World San Diego managed to keep Blue Sharks, a beautiful pelagic species, in captivity. Until they added bull sharks, which ate the blues. No one has managed to copy the feat since.
OowBL TIL British policemen used to wear their uniforms at all times - even when not on duty
b9py7 TIL the longest piece of English literature ever created is a Super Smash Bros fan fiction. Started in 2008 this work in progress spans 222 chapters and is over 4.1 million words.
Yv7A TIL that in Rome, the ancient temple where Julius Caesar was murdered is now a sanctuary for hundreds of cats
QJ4Gk TIL Paul McCartney wrote Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me), because Dustin Hoffman did not believe that he could write a song "about anything", so Hoffman pulled out a magazine where they saw the story about Picasso's last words and McCartney created a demo of the song and lyrics on the spot.