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TIL California almost got its first Major League Baseball team in 1941, 15 years before the Dodgers and Giants moved

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a8QbL TIL that in France, a town called Le Puy has a special type of lentils called green lentils. The lentils were grown in the region for 2,000 years in volcanic soil. They are praised for peppery flavor and retains shape when cooking. Today, these lentils have PDO status.
1aGr TIL humans were almost certainly deep-sea fishing over 42,000 years ago.
xVRaw TIL of Lady Lucy Houston, a British philanthropist who, after WWI, recognized the need for a strong Air Force... when the British government refused, she funded development of what became the Spitfire. She passed before WWII, and never saw how much that investment paid off.
GeD4 TIL that 2 towns in Greece have a firework war every year shooting thousands of rockets at each other. The objective hit the church bell of the opposing town.
j7Qj TIL: A Billionaire hedge fund founder payed 800 New York teachers an extra $15,000 due to poor teacher salaries