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TIL that in South Korea, baseball has cheerleaders

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Ex1d TIL that 16 US states let more than 2,700 companies pocket some or all of its workers’ income taxes without having to notify the workers, diverting more than $5.5 billion dollars from public purposes for private gain in the last two decades.
0yKv Til that dozens dogs that were forced to be left with police during the Katrina evacuation were executed by the police “without regard to the dogs’ size or the potential threat they might pose.”
awK7A TIL that Crimean Gothic, the last survivor of the East Germanic language group (Including the Gothic of the tribes who sacked Rome, and Vandalic) is attested to being spoken in Crimea as late as the 19th century, a full 900 years after the rest of the language subfamily died out
DQQrY TIL The largest carnival float ever was 35 m, featuring a skateboarding bulldog surfing in an 24 m ocean of water. It weighed 45,000 kg
WZB9 TIL of Wild West robber Black Bart, who was noted for his polite, chivalrous attitude. In one instance, when robbing a Wells Fargo stagecoach, he refused to take a woman’s purse, opting instead to just take the company’s money.