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TIL that Willie Mays is the only player in MLB history to have at least one career home run in every inning from 1-16

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7r4X7 TIL more than 2,000 homeless people live underground in New York City. Commonly referred to as “Mole People”, they have a hierarchical community and often times are living directly under the most populous parts of the city
BW0W TIL Bill Murray, playing Ernie McCracken, actually rolled 3 consecutive strikes to film the final scene of the movie Kingpin.
v1gRK TIL that Emily Davison, a brutish suffragette, stepped in front of the King’s horse at the 1913 Epson Derby and was killed. This shows that protestors have always stood in high traffic areas. There’s a video of it too. Emily Davison | British activist
ogdL TIL Alexander the Great expressed in his last will and testament the desire to see “transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties.”
DQ1Qj TIL that fireflies (lightening bugs) live for only two months.