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TIL NFL QB Tom Brady was the last baseball player the Montreal Expos drafted in their history

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N7ZYN TIL after the prohibition in the US, about one-third of the states established government monopolies to control the sale of alcohol. These monopolies still exist in 17 states. They're generally known as ABC Stores.
N58e TIL Chris Rock snuck a copy of the Pamela Anderson sex tape to a 15 year old Make-A-Wish boy that was dying of cancer. [video@13:00]
1aWZO TIL that when Peru’s national football team qualified for this year’s World Cup, their fans’ celebrations were so loud that they produced enough of a seismic wave to trigger earthquake alerts in Lima.
NMRb TIL the Taj Mahal was covered with a huge scaffold during WW2 to make it look like a stockpile of Bamboo and misguide any enemy bombers. (It was also disguised again in 1971!)
x41b TIL For one week in 1994, Tim Allen had the #1 movie at the box office (The Santa Clause), The #1 rated TV show (Home Improvement), and the #1 NY Times bestselling book (Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man).