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TIL 150 years ago, 12 men in Cincinnati took a chance on baseball and changed the world being the first professional baseball team ever.

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4k8ao TIL Harland Sanders, founder of KFC, was excelling at cooking by age 7. When he was 6, his father died, and his mother had to go to work at a canning factory for days at a time, requiring Sanders to care for his two younger siblings, including the family cooking.
KYygw TIL money does buy happiness; it levels off at $100,000/year for some people but not for all
yVvKw TIL that astronauts have been allowed to vote from space since 1997
rNRbd TIL the famed Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group won the Air Force's first Top Gun-style competition but kept it secret until a historian uncovered it in 2005
P1JJJ TIL that sharks living off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, according to new research, the first time that the drug has been detected in free-ranging sharks.