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TIL that now Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was instrumental in ending the 1994-95 MLB Baseball Strike

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b95aZ TIL that the first person convicted of speeding was going 8 mph (13 km/h). In 1896 Walter Arnold drove his horse-less carriage through the village of Paddock Wood, Kent, at more than four times the speed limit.
mwAv TIL A law was passed in Wisconsin last year to make rubber duck races legal since they were previously classified as gambling
NQ81 TIL Ray Bradbury originally titled Fahrenheit 451 as “The Fireman”, but he & editors found the name boring so they called a local fire station and asked what temperature book paper burnt at. The firemen put Bradbury on hold, burnt a book, and reported that the temp it burnt at was “Fahrenheit 451”
BrZBd TIL of a serious plan to disassemble the Giza pyramids to use it as pre-cut building material in 1830s, proposed by ruler Muhammad Ali Pasha, but cleverly the plan was canceled due to false cost reports presented by his French chief engineer, who thought it would be the only way to save the pyramids
VM05m TIL that adult women represent a larger percentage (33%) of video game players than boys under 18 (17%).