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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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9Y6xM TIL: A series of 10 mass stabbings, hammer attacks, and cleaver attacks took place at different elementary schools in China over the course of 2 years. They left at least 25 dead, 115 injured, and were all unrelated.
W7XpY TIL in the 19th century and before, there exists a Long s character that sometimes designated the presence of 2 s's in a row. It appears in the Bill of Rights.
RQP8 TIL The Simpsons episode ‘Homer at Bat’ is credited with saving at least two choking victims because their saviors had learned the Heimlich maneuver from a poster visible in the episode
xVX8b TIL there is a name for such common errors as writing "tow the line" instead of "toe the line." The word eggcorn was coined when a linguist noted a woman who used that word instead of "acorn" and realized there was no word for the general phenomenon.
9xMQ TIL The best-selling video games of all-time in Japan are, in order: Pokemon, Pokemon, Mario, Mario, Pokemon, Pokemon, and Pokemon.