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

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78WyZ TIL construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was built with the help of pressurised caissons (a watertight retaining structure), resulted in numerous workers being either killed or permanently injured by decompression sickness or caisson disease named after this design.
R5468 TIL that, during Egypt's early dynasties, rulers were entombed in flat-topped monuments made of clay-brick called mastabas. Imhotep conceived of building a more impressive tomb for his king by stacking mastabas on top of one another, progressively making them smaller, to form Egypt's first pyramid.
Z8mmp TIL before his assassination, almost two-thirds of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of Dr. Martin Luther King.
loxkK TIL that Drivers who text on the road are in far more danger than intoxicated drivers.Texting drivers had slower reactions times by 35% while drunk drivers displayed a 12% decrease in reaction time and drivers intoxicated with cannabis had slowed response times by 21%.
VBQEQ TIL that the first major German plot to overthrow Hitler, involving multiple generals and a Secretary of State, was cancelled last minute in 1938 when the Allies allowed the invasion of Czechoslovakia