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TIL The Albuquerque Isotopes minor league baseball team was actually named after the baseball team in The Simpsons

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wL1g7 TIL of the National Weight Control Registry, which tracks 6,000 Americans and has shown that calorie control and regular exercise is key to keeping off the pounds, regardless of how much fat you eat.
M4Lm TIL : The first public digital camera had a slot for floppy disc.
a8YEM TIL of 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident, where a failed attempt by North Korean forces to extract a recon team by submarine led to a 49 day manhunt across the city of Gangneung, with some of the 39 man crew believed to have succeeded in returning to North Korea.
b98Jp TIL Yakisugi (burnt cypress) is a traditional Japanese building material. Made by heating cypress boards until the cellulose burns off, it is more fireproof, waterproof, and resistant to insects than ordinary wood
N7xE1 TIL that in 1953, the indiana textbook comission tried to ban 'Robin Hood' for promoting communist ideals.