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TIL the Chicago Cubs used the nickname White Stockings first before the Chicago White Sox took the name in 1893.

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b94LZ TIL During the Second World War, the Japanese army poisoned more than 1,000 water wells in Chinese villages to study cholera and typhus outbreaks. Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas over Chinese cities or distributed them by means of saboteurs in rice fields and along roads.
Bpwr TIL that Mr Rogers testified before the Supreme Court defending the position that home recordings for personal use do not constitute copyright infringement
kOQg TIL AAA doesn’t care if you sign up for their membership on the side of the road… and that’s usually cheaper than calling a tow truck.
Jkx1 TIL an Aboriginal man planted a flag on the cliffs of Dover in 1988 and claimed England for the Aborigines
jjMv TIL the best paid sportsman of all-time was the Roman charioteer Gaius Appuleius Diocles. Before retiring in 146 AD, Diocles had won 1,462 races, resulting in winning over 35,863,120 sesterces in prize-money. By today’s standards, that last figure would cash out to about $15 billion.