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

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W7oE4 TIL The famous photographer Alexey Brodovitch repeatedly ran away from home to fight in the First World War but his father kept having him brought back home.
ln6A TIL that pig rectum is almost indistinguishable from calamari, and is sometimes secretly used as a substitute or sold as “artificial calamari”.
LnKp TIL about a protest in a village in Turkey. The women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the water line. They got what they wanted in one month.
OoNle TIL of Rotha Lintorn-Orman, who decided to become a facist in 1923 to save Britian from communism one day when she was weeding her kitchen garden
R7Kgl TIL that "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" was the first song ever sung by a computer using speech synthesis. This is referenced in 2001: A Space Odyssey when HAL 9000 sings the song as astronaut David Bowman dismantles his brain.