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TIL In 1977, Los Angeles Dodgers' Glenn Burke & Dusty Baker Celebrate With the First-Ever High Five in the History of Sports

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yONX TIL Ever since the Safety Razor gained popularity after it was invented in 1904 by Gillette; every U.S. President has since been clean shaven.
kJpy4 TIL in WWI, half of the French army mutinied in 1917. Soldiers remained in trenches, but refused orders to attack after the failure of the Nivelle Offensive, which General Nivelle promised a 48 hour victory. The mutinies were heavily suppressed by the French and were not fully disclosed until 1967.
OGbmX TIL about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, when Mormons in Utah killed everybody over age 6 in a wagon train from Arkansas & Missouri that was just passing through en route to California
9EKD TIL Harriet the Tortoise died in an Australian zoo at the age of 176. She was born before the light bulb (not just Edison’s) and the first power plant. Her death was announced on CNN. She was brought back from the Galapagos by a young scientist named Charles Darwin.
o8ZA TIL less than half of all tickets for major sport & music events go on sale to the general public