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TIL When Randy Johnson hit a bird with a fastball 15 years ago, PETA tried to give him a hard time about it.

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nWElP TIL the first elevator shaft was built in The Cooper Union - four years before the first passenger elevator was even built
W7JLX TIL slaves brought to America on 1859 in the Clotilda founded after the Civil War the city of Africatown, Alabama, retaining their West African culture until the 1950s
GXZQ TIL that there is an opera being developed for Broadway that is the telling of Jesus’s life using only Britney Spears songs
ADgMn TIL After Hurricane Katrina, a group of Benedictine monks in Louisiana began selling low-cost, handmade cypress caskets. The state’s Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors issued a cease-and-desist order, claiming that only funeral homes could sell caskets. A judge ruled in favor of the monks.
Enlp TIL a man with a fake eye was convicted and executed by the Puritans for the crime of bestiality after spotting a piglet that looked a bit like him.