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TIL The Onion has been in existence for 26 years

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PYGLJ TIL: Playing narrative based video games enhances literacy
XE8K8 TIL that the human brain has a special region within its visual processing system which is uniquely fearful of only snakes.
NX8k1 TIL by the time the New York Yankees won their first World Series in 1923, not only had Babe Ruth come from the Red Sox, but half the Yankee position players and 4 out of 5 of their pitching rotation had been acquired from Boston in trades.
nWgPd TIL that opossums almost never carry rabies due to their lower body temperature
0d8Kp TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.