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TIL of "boosting", where disabled athletes with spinal cord injuries can boost their performance by deliberately breaking one of their toes

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DQLag TIL that the first major league in baseball formed in 1876 and was called the National League and included 8 teams.
yQ9kp TIL Max Brooks, the author of "World War Z" and son of Mel Brooks, was invited to join the Modern War Institute at West Point as a non-resident fellow to write about non-military issues that could turn violent in the future, such as corporate control of the food chain.
e6ek TIL An Indian man named Dashrath Manjhi carved a 360 foot long path through a mountain over the course of 22 years to reduce the distance between his village and the hospital down from 70km to 1km, to ensure no one would die like his wife did because they could not get medical care.
165oV TIL: A shrimp's heart is in it's head!
E17bX TIL that How Scientists Have Uncovered The 90,000-Year-Old Hybrid Of Two Extinct Human Species