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TIL that only 64 kids that have played in the Little League World Series since 1947 have made it to the majors

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v15bR TIL America's largest Confederate monument is Stone Mountain, Georgia. It's over 800 ft tall and 1.5 miles wide, draws 4 million visitors a year, and has a relief covering one face of the mountain that depicts three leaders of the Confederacy – Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.
1a5d7 TIL the UK's National Health Service (NHS) is the 5th largest employer in the world with 1.7 million employees - after McDonald's, Walmart, China's People's Liberation Army and the US Dept. Of Defense*
epmZ6 TIL that over 80% of Bulldog litters are delivered by Caesarean section because their characteristically large heads can become lodged in the mother's birth canal
ekJb TIL that in 2010 King Henry IV of France’s head was found preserved in the attic of a retired tax collector
QxGe TIL Benjamin Franklin turned someone who hated him into a fan by only writing him a letter asking for a favor - Now called the Benjamin Franklin Effect