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TIL the two men who penned the song ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ had never previously been to a baseball game.

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gMZBb TIL in the "Why did the chicken cross the road?" joke, the original punchline came from the double-meaning in the phrase the 'other side'. The other side could refer to the other side of the road, and it also could refer to the afterlife. The joke later became thought of and used as an anti-joke.
OoOmL TIL about the Cyborg Foundation, an international organisation that defends cyborg rights, promotes cyborg art and supports people who want to become cyborgs
loA4G TIL that according to one jewish legend,shedims(Jewish demons,not necessarily evil) were born because god originally wanted to make some humans but the sabbath came and he could not do any more work and just treated the project as complete.
XEe8 TIL The university of Texas football players ate their mascot at a sports banquet in 1920.
6E477 TIL that SeaWorld did everything in its power to conceal the mistreatment of orcas and the killings and injuries induced by their most popular orca, Tilicum, going so far as to blame the trainers knowing full well the whales were being mistreated to the point of mental and physical degradation.