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TIL As of 2009 the L.A. Country Club should have been paying $25 million per year in taxes but because of California Proposition 13, which keeps taxes at 1978 levels if a business does not change hands, the Club only paid $200,000

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jMQj TIL in 1957 Richie Ashburn, a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, hit a foul ball that struck spectator Alice Roth breaking her nose. When play resumed, Ashburn hit another foul ball striking her again as she was being taken off on a stretcher.
Dmkp TIL that the US wanted to switch completely to the metric system and is still going slowly towards it
NXZob til that The Rock is technically obese when using BMI, 6:20 in the video
JLVV TIL The man who wrote the documents of surrender signed by Confederate general Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse on this day in 1865 was a Seneca Indian named Ely Parker( born Hasanoanda). Upon meeting him Lee extended his hand and said, “I am glad to see one real American here.”
7wZr TIL that while the US has the most civilian guns per capita by far, it’s only 28th in gun homicide rate, at just 3 per 100,000 people.