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TIL as of 1859 (documented in the Base Ball Player’s Pocket Companion) there were different rules for baseball, with the “New York” rules ultimately winning out over the “Massachusetts” rules.

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a89JZ TIL about Grizzly 399. A female bear from the Grand Tetons that bucks the trend of living into her old age and giving birth to triplets instead of twins. She chooses to live in close proximity to humans for their protection and has become a social media celebrity and tourist attraction.
VMVVZ TIL that Khutulun, a Mongolian Noblewoman made a pact with her father that she would marry the man who beat her at Wrestling and that any man who lost was to give her 100 horses. She is reported to have gained over 10,000 horses from defeating her suitors.
AdEB TIL The US Department of Defense has paid NFL teams millions of tax dollars to hold surprise military family reunions, “Hometown Hero” salutes and other military displays during games.
4XWGb TIL about Maximilian I, the younger brother of Franz- Josef, the only Hapsburg monarch of Mexico. During the Franco-Mexican war, Napoleon III gave Maximilian a huge chunk of Mexico in 1864 and Maximilian made a lot of liberal reforms at the time. He was executed 3 years later.
YpkZx TIL of “The Shadows from the Walls of Death”—an 86-paged book considered to be one of the deadliest tomes in the world. Each page contains a sample of wallpaper saturated in a lethal amount of arsenic and any contact with bare skin can prove fatal.