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TIL the Pittsburgh Pirates got their moniker in the 1890s because they pilfered players from other teams.

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xeyD TIL in 1987 a lone Chilean Flamingo named Pink Floyd escaped from a zoo in Salt Lake City and lived alone in the wild in Utah on the Great Salt Lake, surviving off brine shrimp. He was last seen in 2005, but others have claimed they’ve spotted him since.
9Y6Pp TIL: a holocaust denial group offered $50k to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay the money, and an additional $40k, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who gave proof of that very fact.
Vnop TIL in Abraham Lincoln’s 1846 run for Congress, friend’s gave him $200 to campaign. After winning he handed back $199.25 saying, “my only outlay was 75 cents which some farm hands insisted I should treat to.”
LkPDp TIL Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network.An Android phone can become a “mini seismometer” because it has an accelerometer — the thing that detects if you’ve rotated it or not. Android’s system uses the data from that sensor to see if the phone is shaking.
w4Lo TIL that Nicholas Cage was on the cover of a Serbian biology textbook from 1991 to 2003