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TIL: Tennis Baseball: a Baseball Game, But With Tennis Rackets!

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X0ekX TIL it took almost 50 years after inventing the tin-can to invent the can opener
KbE TIL that in the first 10 years of the Tour de France,(1904-1914) many of the cyclists cheated by taking buses and trains instead of cycling the race.
KOmKa TIL Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey was the first African-American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution. His vote was cast on March 31, 1870. He was also the city's first colored person to serve on a jury.
m14Rx TIL Helen Viola Jackson who died in December 2020 was the last surviving civil war veteran’s spouse. She was married to someone alive at the time of Abraham Lincoln
EVlw TIL Norway gets 98-99% of its electricity from hydroelectric power, more than any other country