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TIL: Before 1859 baseball umpires sat in a rocking chair 20 feet behind home plate

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epxbE TIL of Herxheim, a mass grave/ritual center dating back to ~5000 BC. It is estimated that >1000 individuals were cannibalized at this site as ritual sacrifices.
rLvd TIL of Unit 731, a covert Japanese research group that carried out human experimentation during WWII to study chemical and biological warfare. The are considered to be responsible for some of the worst war crimes in history for the tens of thousand who died during the experiments.
4kOLN TIL the world record for “most children delivered at a single birth to survive” is 9 babies, known as nonuplets.
DQ4Zg TIL: On July 23, 2013 Matt Dyer a lawyer from Maine was mauled by a polar bear on a hiking trip in Torngat Mountains National Park and luckily survived. Despite all that, a year later Dyer was back at the location of the attack.
v5kB TIL that in 1834 Mormon leader Joseph Smith desecrated an Indian grave mound and declared the bones were from Zelph a White Indian who worked for the great Prophet Onandagus. Smith and his buddies divided up the bones and they are now lost.