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TIL that women were banned from the MLB after a 17 Year Old Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

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b9dgQ TIL that Confederate soldiers could not be buried in national cemeteries, nor were they afforded any benefits from the United States Government. When the reburial corps in the late 1860s found remains on battlefields, they'd remove the Union soldiers and leave the Confederates.
BMvk TIL FOX threatened to sue The Simpsons over a FOX News gag, but didn’t because they would have effectively been suing themselves
QNnpa TIL that the current year in Ethiopia is 2017. The Ethiopian year starts on 11th of September or on the 12th September in a Gregorian leap year. It is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian year owing to alternate calculations in determining the date of the annunciation of the birth of Jesus.
PY8Gn TIL before 9/11 there were only 16 people on the no-fly list. As of 2013 there are over 47,000 people now on the no-fly list.
X06bQ TIL: contrary to common belief, bees are not the only species to make honey. One wasp species does also