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TIL that Lone Star ticks can give you meat allergy.

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DQdlj TIL about the Battle of Christiana, in which a group of armed freedmen fought a party of federal marshals to defend escaped slaves, killing the slaves former owner who had shouted; "I will have my property, or go to hell!". Everyone involved was later acquitted and the slaves escaped to Canada.
R7KV8 TIL The wrestling mask was first introduced at a World's Fair in 1865 by Theobaud Bauer, who appeared as The Masked Wrestler. It started being a regular thing in 1915 when Mort Henderson wrestled as Masked Marvel.
dP17 TIL “The Most Interesting Man in the World” almost didn’t get the part. When told they were going with someone younger, his agent wisely said “How can the most interesting man in the world be young”. He got the part.
1aypD TIL Kenny Sailors, the inventor of the modern-day jump shot, is shockingly not in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
YA5v TIL some experts estimate that around 30% of a dog’s brain is dedicated to analyzing smells. This is 40 times larger than a human’s, proportionately.