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TIL Rubén Rivera was voted off the The Yankees by the rest of the team after he stole teammate Derek Jeter's glove and bat, then sold them for $2,500.

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W7e98 TIL that East India company still exist today—it is now owned by Sanjiv Mehta, a businessman from India.
0wnWy TIL Some of America’s biggest employers like Walmart, Amazon and FedEx, don’t match employee donations to charity
nPMG TIL that Weezer’s music video “Buddy Holly” was included on the install disc for Windows 95 and 20 years later the band was playing regularly at Microsoft retail store openings.
mxrOR TIL that in the USSR, according to Soviet statistics, the 3% of cultivated land in private hands "produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output, including about 30 percent of meat and milk, 66 percent of potatoes, and 40 percent of fruits, vegetables, and eggs"
GYZa1 TIL Libyan leader Gaddafi spoke a dialect of Arabic that was hard for other Arabs to understand and often spoke for hours without notes by saying the first thing that came into his head. He once spoke at the London School of Oriental and African Studies by direct satellite and was 90% unintelligible