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TIL the first-ever professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, went undefeated for their first 71 games.

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oB1ML TIL: The English Moors used to be a Temperate Rainforest, now a barren and desolate "wet desert" due to deforestation & fires caused by humans thousands of years ago
RJQ9 TIL A 9,000 Year Old Skeleton Was Found in a Cave in Cheddar, England Known As Cheddar Man. When CM’s DNA was tested a Living Relative Was Found Teaching School Half a Mile Away, Linking Back 300 Generations
D99P TIL the most radioactive place on earth isn’t Chernobyl or Fukushima, but a lake in the southern Urals that was once home the the Soviet’s nuclear waste storage area. You could receive a lethal dose of radiation in 30 minutes just standing on the shore of the lake.
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Z8Gvo TIL In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.