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TIL even though professional wrestling is deemed “fake” the sport has a much greater track record for personal injury than MMA

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ADg1B TIL about Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel, a waterway trash inceptor that removed approx. 200,000 bottles, 173,000 potato chip bags, and 6.7 million cigarette butts from the inner harbor in just 18 months of initial operation.
NX0Kb TIL that there exists a script developed for women by the women called Nushu. The script was invented in China for women to communicate in privacy
QNKGp TIL about Lisa Nowak: an astronaut mother of 3, who drove 900 miles in adult diapers to kidnap the other woman in a bizarre space love triangle.
POZe TIL Moses Fleetwood Walker was actually the first African-American to play in organized baseball. Walker broke the Color-Barrier in 1884 and played one season as the catcher of the Toledo Blue Stockings.
oRKW7 TIL that Edna Parker (1893-2008), the oldest living human at the time, lived in the same nursing home, and at the same time as Sandra Allen (1955-2008), the tallest woman in the world. Allen was 7'7".