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TIL Will Ferrell played on 10 different MLB teams in one day

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9GEX TIL of a bar in New Mexico opened in 1896. At one point it was owned by a Justice of the Peace who held court there and jailed the guilty in the back. During prohibition, it ran as a pool hall with a secret trap door leading to the speakeasy in the basement. The Capitol Bar remains open to this day!
epK5J TIL: The 6 Mitford sisters were a famous aristocratic family heavily involved in wildly different political scenes in the 1900s. Unity was a close friend of Hitler and visited him often, Diana married the leader of British Union of Fascists, Jessica joined the American Communist Party, etc.
WyO8 TIL it’s estimated Franz Kafka burned about 90% of his works. When he died he asked his friend to burn the remaining manuscripts (including The Trial) but his friend refused and instead turned them in for publishing.
R5WBj TIL Thailand uses a lottery card game to draft men into the military
R77kw TIL due to Japan's aging population, they sell more adult diapers than baby diapers