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TIL: The Green Bay Packers is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the United States.

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Y7ZjZ TIL that The nucleus is very small compared to the size of the atom. As an analogy, if the atom where the size of a baseball stadium, then the nucleus would be smaller than a baseball, perhaps closer to the size of a ping pong ball. Most of atom is, in fact, empty space.
8ad8Z TIL that 5000 years ago people in what is now Scotland carved intricate baseball sized stone balls in varied shapes and we don't know why.
R7V6j TIL the 1815 eruption Mt. Tambora was the deadliest volcano ever, causing 90,000 deaths and a 'year without summer'
1aVa7 TIL slang term "going to the crapper" is attributed to Thomas Crapper, a British plumber which his company sold toilet bowls with his name stamped on them. many believe that he was the inventor of the flushing toilet. the real inventor is John Harrington, therefore the phrase "going to the John".
8am6L TIL that during the initial theatrical run of E.T. Steven Spielberg earned $500,000 a day from his share of the profits.