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TIL there's no legit professional wrestling (at least in the US)

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BrJJW TIL Wet Wet Wet lead Marty Pellow had their hit song Love is All Around removed from sales not long after going to the cinema and hearing someone say "God, not that song again!" as the Four Weddings trailer played, it was still selling 120k copies/week when it was pulled 3.5 months after release.
oR91Y TIL about Jim Humble, a self-proclaimed bishop that gives industrial bleach to sick people and autistic children
R7xpw TIL James Joyce wrote very... passionate love letters to his wife Nora
LkR09 TIL the worst record in MLB history belongs to the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, for losses (134) and winning percentage (.130). They were so bad that opponents refused to visit their park, forcing Cleveland to play 112 of 154 games on the road, leading to an impossible-to-break record of 101 road losses.
dDr7Q TIL ant corpses release a chemical when they die. A scientist once recreated this chemical and put it on a live ant. Its ant friends kept bringing it to the graveyard no matter how much it struggled to return.