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TIL Sappers defuse over 5,000 World War II bombs in Germany every year

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WkkG4 "Lightning. It avoids the ocean but likes Florida. It’s attracted to the Himalayas and even more so to central Africa. And lightning almost never strikes the north or south poles."
pYWrQ TIL that the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is about a baseball-obsessed girl. The part sung at baseball games is only the chorus, where she tells her boyfriend where she wants to go on a date.
lNR1 TIL that in Wellington New Zealand there are suburbs where it is common to have a private cable car from your garage to your house.
QNkP6 TIL that the world famous Krabby Patty is actually a veggie burger
oReO7 TIL the first athlete to sign a $1 million endorsement contract was a professional bowler named Don Carter.