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TIL Baseball and Cricket are the only major sports where the defense has the ball

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MeaRm TIL our closest non-primate relative is the flying lemur. They are one of the inaccurately named animals as they cannot fly and are not lemurs but colugos
GYMNj TIL that New Jersey made the tomato their state vegetable in 2005, justifying the decision with an 1893 ruling by the Supreme Court that although tomatoes are actually fruits, they would be legally considered vegetables.
VM8yQ TIL James Irwin, the 8th person to walk on the moon, quit NASA to begin expeditions in search of Noah's Ark.
R6j6 TIL Tom Cruise sent letters and gifts to the boy who originally played the little boy in “Jerry Maguire” but was replaced by Jonathan Lipnicki, because he “just didn’t want that first actor to go to the movies, look at the screen and think he’d failed. I wanted him to love movies his entire life.”
bON9 TIL that Chef Gordon Ramsay originally aspired to be a professional soccer player, but then suffered a knee injury that he never fully recovered from. He then decided to follow his already growing interest in culinary education so he wouldn’t be known as “the football player with the gammy knee”.