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TIL that cricket used to be a very popular sport in America until the First World War

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9Y0YD TIL there is a hotel in Auckland next to a giant bungee tower, and the hotel doesn't inform the guests that screaming people will be plummeting past their hotel room windows.
BrE1r TIL in Washinton State in 1995 an irate deer hunter shot down a helicopter with an arrow.
kAkW TIL that a plastic IV bag, which costs less than 50 cents to produce, costs more than 500 dollars for the sick patient using it.
YJJx TIL currently in Mauritania 680,000 or 20% of the population is enslaved.
ADRe4 TIL the oldest wooden church in the world and the oldest wooden building in Europe is St. Andrew's in Greensted, Essex, England