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TIL Danish Pastry Are Not from Denmark But Was Brought There by Austrian Bakers

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JYoJm TIL that construction of Wrigley Field baseball park, home of the Chicago Cubs, began on February 23, 1914 and was ready for the home opener two months later on April 23, 1914, and cost $250,000 (the equivalent of $6.4 million today).
Ypbkr TIL that the Karen are an actual ethnic group of approximately 7.5 million Sino-Tibetan peoples. While the group as a whole is heterogeneous and disparate, some of the Karen, led primarily by the Karen National Union (KNU), have been in a constant state of war since the 1940s.
vOOj TIL There were no red M&Ms from 1976 till 1986
bDV0 TIL during the 2007 Writers Strike, David Letterman paid the Late Show staff out of his own pocket.
yQwoe TIL Loma Linda, California is the only American region identified as a Blue Zone among four others around the world. These areas have people who live the longest. The city has a high percentage of Seventh Day Adventists, who have what is considered one of the healthiest styles of living.