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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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58Dp TIL Fairmont hotel chain has resident dogs known as Canine Ambassadors, who greet guests in the lobby, accompany them on walks and to make them feel at home.
9wAdQ TIL in the 1987 movie Robocop, the city hall building of Dallas, Texas was used as OCP headquarters. Matte paintings were used to make the building appear taller.
NXLBQ TIL that the Lipka Tartars (in Lithuania) used the Arabic alphabet to write in the Belarusian language until the 1930s.
9WD6 TIL, The last reported execution for sorcery in Saudi Arabia took place…..in June 2012
grmlW TIL Calvin Coolidge called Americans and Russians "traditional friends" in his first radio address in December 1923. The Russian Empire supported the Patriots in the American Revolution, and the Union in the US Civil War in the 1700s-1800s.