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TIL the Hollister store chain threatened to sue merchants in the city of Hollister, California who sold shirts that had the city’s name on it

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QNL9E TIL the first international cricket match was between teams from the United States and Canada. Canada won
rNa5w TIL Cuban leader Fidel Castro invented the basketball move, the Euro Step.
OWBe TIL of WW1 Casualty/Mercy dogs. Dogs trained to find wounded or dying soldiers on the battlefield that also carried medical supplies so an injured soldier could try to treat himself (whilst more gravely wounded soldiers would seek the company of a Mercy dog to wait with them whilst they died).
m47E TIL Meditation changes brain structure in just 8 weeks—including an increase in grey matter in the part of the brain associated with learning.