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TIL Bull Running was a popular and common occurance in English towns, more so than Spain, until it was outlawed in 1835 due to the death and disorder it caused

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mbXO TIL of Little Canada, MN. The city was established in 1844, 23 years older than Canada.
VMdym TIL Native Americans would herd Bison and run them off a cliff in mass slaughters called "Pushkin"
GArk7 TIL in 1975, Stephen Hawking wagered to cosmologist Kip Thorne a subscription to Penthouse (an adult magazine) that Cygnus X-1 would not turn out to be a black hole. Hawking lost the bet but was okay with it because if he had won, much of his research would've been proven wrong.
GRm5 TIL it is possible for a person to walk between any two points in the Pentagon in less than seven minutes.
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