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TIL: The new Premier League Champions Liverpool FC are owned by Fenway Sports Group, as are the Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Penguins, and RFK Racing

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9Y0Op TIL About Memphis' Martyrs Park, a city park built around a mass grave of the victims of the city's 1878 yellow fever epidemic and honoring the brave individuals who stayed behind despite great risk to care for the sick and bury the dead.
X8Dr TIL Eric Carle, the American-born illustrator and writer of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, moved to Germany as a kid in the 1930s, and was conscripted to dig trenches for the German army when he was 15 years old. Now 87 years old, he is one of the youngest surviving WWII veterans.
WEE9 TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13 years to the day apart.
MepJW TIL It’s actually better to floss before brushing
vPKAL TIL that the Irish and Scottish legends claim they originated from a Pharaoh of Egypt