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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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7r1p7 TIL about a “squirrel king” which is when a group of squirrels get their tails tied together
1abQO TIL that Colonel Sanders of KFC fame wore only his trademark white suit in public for the last 20 years of his life
mvZO TIL The Sydney Funnel-web spider has fangs larger than a brown snake’s.
PYAQw TIL about The Man in the Moone, a 1638 novel that is considered by some to be one of the first works of science fiction. In it, a Spaniard ends up on the moon after fleeing Spain and harnessing some wild swans who fly him up to it. He then meets the “Lunars”-a people who inhabit the moon.
b6oe4 TIL about the USS Constellation, a sloop-of-war that was the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. The ship was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855 and was named for the earlier frigate of the same name that had been broken up in 1853.