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TIL that in South Korea, baseball has cheerleaders

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JEkj TIL in the days after the 9/11 attacks the German warship Lutjens(D185) passed by the US destroyer Winston S. Churchill with the US flag flying at half-mast and the sailors Manning-the-Rails, an honor typically reserved for heads of state.
XE1PE TIL it would take us approximately 225 million years to walk 1 light-year.
jgXj Til Macho Man Randy Savage Was A Professional Baseball Player
1a61O TIL in 1961 when Yuri Gagarin returned from space Nikita Khrushchev wanted to boost the Soviet's anti-religion campaign by saying: "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there."
4Mx5 TIL during prohibition in the US, merchants sold “bricks” of grape concentrate with a packet of dried yeast. These would come with a “warning label” cautioning not to mix the brick, yeast, water and sugar in a pot and then seal it for seven days, or else “an illegal alcoholic beverage will result”.