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TIL Confucius's family kept genealogy records for over 2 millennia

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E19VX TIL that the Mall of America doesn't have a central heating system. Instead, it uses the body heat of people inside it and sunlight, even in the winter.
QNnvE TIL that Sylvester Graham (of Graham Cracker fame), the original clean-eating guru and vegetarian pioneer who shunned alcohol, lust, meat, and even white bread, died at age 57 of complications from an opium enema
awLVJ TIL That in 2017, the Turkish State destroyed a Cemetery of Kurdish Fighters, dug up the remains of 282 of them, and had them "reburied" in plastic boxes on top of each other under a pavement at a Jewish Cemetery in Istanbul in a section for the nameless, far away from their relatives.
e0LPk TIL there has never been a documented case of poison candy being handed out on Halloween.
8MKb TIL Many Major League Baseball players have refused to face softball pitcher Jennie Finch in her ‘This Week in Baseball’ TV segment, where she challenges the best hitters in MLB, because she strikes out so many of them.