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TIL by eating sausages during Lent in 1522, Christoph Froschauer and Huldrych Zwingli defied Church fasting rules, igniting the Swiss Reformation.

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8aXw4 TIL the longest home run hit ever made in Fenway park--502 feet-- was done by Ted Williams on June 9, 1946. The place where it landed in the stands, is marked by a red seat.
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JYVa8 TIL Director James Cameron sketched the nude portrait of Kate Winslet used in the movie "Titanic."
1dX7 TIL There is no center of the universe. The Big Bang wasn’t an explosion in space but rather an explosion of space, with nothing before it. Therefore there is no center. Everything from every point is expanding, but not from a central location.
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