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TIL A baseball player only needs to spend one day in the major leagues to earn free healthcare for life.

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ANYRw TIL there is a movement to recover and preserve “heritage apples,” those forgotten once commercial growers settled on a few varieties to mass grow. Over a thousand have been found so far.
9YgKM TIL: In 1967, India offered China 800 sheeps and 59 yaks to buy peace and to show the world that China can go on a war for petty issues and can't be trusted.
d8x88 TIL Montreal's mayor declared in '76 that "the Olympics can no more have a financial deficit than a man can have a baby." The city actually took 30 years to then pay off the debt.
Z8nMD TIL Michael Keaton's first appearance in TV was in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, where he also served as a full-time production assistant.
epEEn TIL that dragonflies breathe through gills in their rectum, and can rapidly propel themselves by suddenly expelling water through the anus