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TIL that stretch marks don't tan.

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A5Po TIL that every ball used in an MLB game is covered in mud that comes from a secret location in New Jersey. A man skims through riverbanks to find the mud, then refines it before it’s applied to balls. It’s called the Lena Blackburne Original Baseball Rubbing Mud
7bGX TIL that there’s an ordinary-looking stream in Yorkshire that’s actually a full size river compressed into a narrow channel, and it’s thought that no-one who’s fallen in has ever survived.
Jj7m TIL that Pokémon Gold and Silver were supposed to be the final games in the series, effectively ending the Pokémon franchise for good.
RWOl TIL In 1969 a 14 year old boy managed to sneak into John Lennon’s hotel room with a reel-to-reel recorder and Lennon actually agreed to be interviewed by him. The recording still exists.
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.