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TIL television networks transitioned away from from quality hard-news reporting, to the more entertaining and sensationalized news we see today, strictly because it was more profitable.

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Y77MB TIL The number of baseballs used per MLB game can vary, but will typically be a minimum of 120 balls to 144 balls
16BlW TIL that although the Superfight between Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano was simulated (with ketchup being used as fake blood), Ali nonetheless felt legitimately hurt, from some of the dramatised punches that Marciano threw at him.
JW98 TIL The day after Robin Williams’s suicide, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline fielded the greatest number of calls in its history.
Dlxg TIL of Betty Pack, she was described as “the greatest unsung heroine of the war” and perfected the “honey pot” technique to get information during WW2.
e0BnE TIL 50%—80% of your poop (excluding water) is bacteria that had been living in your intestines. Many of the bacteria in poop are still alive, but some are dead—carcasses of species that bloomed as they fed on the indigestible plant matter you consumed, then died shortly afterward.