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

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4XLKw TIL that there are 'Atheist Churches' for secular humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, atheists and agnostics who want a sense of community without having to deal with any of the God stuff
Yw4W TIL: Lobsters used to be so abundant and cheap that people though of them as trash food and fed it to their cats; it was also a staple of servants, soldiers and prisoners.
jNNNX TIL of Grizzly Bear #122 of Banff National Park - he is the largest bear in the area, has eaten a couple black bears, has fathered 5 cubs, and was hit by a train and lived.
D1v6r TIL that J (Juliett) in the NATO alphabet is spelled with an extra T for French speakers who would otherwise pronounce it with a silent T if the extra one wasn’t there
Ooev7 TIL after finding a bloodied and dazed 14 year old boy with a drilled hole in his head, police returned him to the serial killer he just escaped from, assuming it was just a quarrel between two lovers