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TIL: Russians purchased 500,000 baseball bats in 2014 but only one ball

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Xer6 TIL In Lake Huron, there is an island named Manitoulin Island. On this island, there is a lake called Lake Mindemoya. In this lake lies Treasure island, also known as, “the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world.”
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16pWW TIL that there's a museum in Japan that's dedicated to rocks that look like human faces!
wMp6 TIL Sylvester Stallone hated the first 3.5 hour cut of “Rambo: First Blood Part I” so much, that it made him and his agent sick. He wanted to buy the movie and destroy it thinking it was a career killer. Ultimately, a heavily re-edited 93 minute cut was sent for theatrical release.
0dX7p TIL of Finnegans Wake, a novel widely considered to be one of the most difficult works of western fiction. Written in a nearly incomprehensible stream-of-consciousness style, literary critics are yet to come to a unanimous agreement on who the characters are or what the plot is.