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TIL Homo Sapiens didn’t have problems with crooked teeth until agriculture and the resulting change in diet.

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nZL7 TIL Years after Tiger Stadium was demolished in Detroit, a group of fans came together and maintained the playing field. To this day, they still cut the grass and fertilize the field at their own expense. They now have little league games where the Detroit Tigers played for more than 100 years.
R5aLw TIL that the 1927 General Election in Liberia had a turnout of 1660%. The winner secured 240,000 votes, when the country had less than 15,000 eligible voters.
4kBMb TIL Charles Darwin has a copy of Karl's Marx's book back on display
E1egw TIL in Finnish folklore, most Gods and Goddesses appear as married couples with equal or overlapping realms, and thunder is caused when Ukko, the god of skies, and his wife, the earth mother Akka, are having sex
oBZjr TIL Brent Gretzky, along with his brother Wayne, hold the record for most NHL points scored by siblings with 2,861. (Brent has 4).