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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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x9Zk TIL: It takes a 10-person team to unlock the 22-ton bank vault at Fort Knox - still the most impenetrable vault in the world. Roughly 3% of all the gold ever refined in human history is stored there.
0wkjM TIL that in the 1962 World Cup, the Chilean team ate Swiss cheese before beating Switzerland, spaghetti before beating Italy, and drank vodka before beating the USSR. Then they drank coffee before their match against Brazil but lost.
5oL9 TIL of the White Feathers Movement, in which feminists and suffragettes shamed men who refused to fight in World War 1
jprN TIL Nearly one third of the American labor force works on the weekend
OoLQX TIL that despite popular anecdotes it is highly unlikely that Mozart and Beethoven ever met.