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TIL A Group Of Flat Earthers Spend $20,000 Trying To Prove Earth Is Flat, Accidentally Prove It's Round

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a87bb TIL that pigeons prefer certain car colors when it comes to pooping on them.
oBPxE TIL that Detroit's population peaked in 1950 with 1,850,000 residents and has declined to a population of 677,116 in 2015
yQOBM TIL Yuri Gegarin, the first man in space, began life in a mud hut
mxrOR TIL that in the USSR, according to Soviet statistics, the 3% of cultivated land in private hands "produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output, including about 30 percent of meat and milk, 66 percent of potatoes, and 40 percent of fruits, vegetables, and eggs"
XEnB8 TIL MLB planned to fold the Montreal Expos and Minnesota Twins in 2001. When the Twins had to honor the end of its lease at the Metrodome, MLB kept both squads to maintain an even number of teams. Unluckily for the Expos, they had sold most of their prospects, and moved to Washington, D.C. in 2005.