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TIL that stretch marks don't tan.
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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
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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.
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TIL that Pokémon Gold and Silver were supposed to be the final games in the series, effectively ending the Pokémon franchise for good.
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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.
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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.