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TIL Jaguars have twice the bite strength of a tiger

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Aokd TIL that there has not been a left-handed catcher to play in a MLB game for 25 years. Left-handed catchers have only caught eleven big-league games since 1902 with the last one being in 1989.
jNlVM TIL Guy Fawkes, a man famous for his part in the gunpowder plot to assassinate King James I of England, was ranked 30th in a BBC list of the 100 greatest Britons of all time. King James I did not make the list.
ep7OL TIL: An analysis of data from every Supreme Court justice from 1789 to 2006 found that when the incumbent president is of a different party than the president who appointed the justice, the justice's death-in-office odds are about tripled.
VM6Z4 TIL that about 107 billion people have ever lived
rRGVM TIL a 2009 study compared 8,000 archived blood samples from a 1950s USAF base, and 12,000 modern samples. They found celiac disease to be 4x more common in the modern samples.