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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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W9MY TIL that cretin, the first word used to describe a mental handicap, comes from the French word for Christian
wQRE TIL that during the Third Crusade 84% of the crusader army went home because the Holy Roman Emperor drowned in a river.
QKQp TIL in their 45 years playing, the San Diego Padres are the only team in Major League Baseball to have never pitched a no-hitter.
d4Xd TIL that Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Yemen are yet to have a leader who has completed secondary school.
61m TIL Monks in northern Japan would practice self-mummification. A practice in which they would exercise rigorously to rid all body fat from their system, begin drinking a poisonous tea, and remain in a tiny tomb in the lotus position until confirmed dead. The process took over 3000 days.