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TIL that the authors for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” had never been to a ball game before putting together their now-famous song

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YpAgZ TIL Cyndi lauper"s 80s hit "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a cover of the Robert Hazards song of the same name from the late 70s.
8e7QZ TIL in the 1950s Temple University and the City of Philadelphia disinterred an entire cemetery to expand Temple's campus and dumped 28,000 headstones into the river
neQvG TIL: Closing your eyes when in complete darkness improves your overall perception
voQj TIL that the US religion industry is worth $1.2 Trillion a year, more than America’s 10 biggest tech companies, combined!
xjVo TIL Edward and Bella’s relationship in Twilight series meet all 15 criteria set by the National Domestic Violence hotline for being in an abusive relationship.