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jNZMn TIL the story of "Canuck the Crow", an infamous bird in Vancouver Canada known for stealing a knife from a crime scene, breaking into a McDonalds, chasing the mail man, and is still being tracked and swooping people to this day.
5YE8P TIL about the "Squirrel Cage Jail" in Iowa, a three-story rotary jail that actually turned (and could cut off your limbs if you hung them out of the cage when it turned). It took five minutes for it make one revolution.
lombK TIL that the longest professional baseball game ever lasted 33 innings and over 8 hours. Players became delirious with exhaustion, it got so cold that people burned bats to keep warm, and the president of the league stopped the game at 4 a.m. The final score was 3-2 after play resumed a month later.
xV7GB TIL English sweating sickness, which caused profuse sweating and sometimes led to a rapid death, remains a mystery more than five centuries later. After raging for more than 60 years, the last major outbreak of the disease in England was recorded in 1551. Then the "English sweat" simply vanished.
X0kAQ TIL the town of Center in North Dakota was named in 1902 because of its proximity to the center of Oliver County. In 2017 geography proffessor Peter Rogerson used azimuthal equidistant projection to calculate the geographical center of North America only to discover it was Center, North Dakota.