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TIL that the Chicago Cubs were the first baseball team to win back-to-back World Series; and haven’t won since

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eaO5 TIL There is an abandoned 120 year old concert hall buried underground in the middle of downtown Boston
Ab7d TIL in 2009, Harry Connick Jr. was a guest on an Australian talent show where a blackface skit received roaring approval from the crowd. Shocked, he gave the act a 0 and later said had he known about the skit in advance, he wouldn’t have been on the show.
neNoW TIL the Han Dynasty was founded by a sheriff who was transporting convicts when several escaped. Knowing the punishment for this was death, he freed the rest and organized many into a rebel band, eventually going on to help overthrow the ruling Qin Dynasty and install himself as Emperor.
9n6B TIL: Traditional circus clowns are derived from Irish Stereotypes. Bushy red hair, white skin, gin-blossom nose, Drunken behavior, patched clothing.
gM1lW TIL: People like Forrest Gump were real. In the Vietnam War, a program under LBJ, and McNamara swept through the ghettos of America looking for low IQ people to induct into the Armed Forces; in total 354000 people. Termed "McNamara's Morons" they were KIA at 3x the rate of other soldiers