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TIL: The Horses of Medieval Times Weren't Much Bigger Than Modern-Day Ponies

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OoxX6 TIL there is also a Tomb of Unknows Civil War soldiers. 2,111 unidentifiable casualties found in 1866
OongY TIL On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the U.S Senate Commerce Committee requesting funds to help support the growth of a new concept. National Public Television.
AD7Qg TIL of the practice of "Fox Tossing", a once popular sport involving catapulting a live fox (or a badger or a hare or a wolf or whatever) as high as possible and dodging it as it falls.
ljOK TIL former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner once caught and detained a 17 year old named Ray Negron spraying graffiti on Yankee stadium. As a punishment, he made him the team’s batboy. Negron worked his way up the baseball ladder and went on to become a Yankees executive and a best selling author.
6eQm TIL that during Napoleons 6 day stay in Malta he; reformed national administration, created twelve municipalities, created a public finance administration, abolished all feudal privileges and slavery, framed a family code, nominated twelve judges and established public education.