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TIL about the Italian town of Negrar and its coat of arms depicting a black man

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DRYv TIL That Cal Ripken’s brother Billy wrote F*ck Face on the bottom of his bat for his rookie card.
gOBL TIL The setting for the Fallout series is based on a novel called “A Boy and His Dog”.
5VLED TIL the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) currently under construction in Chile will have 15 times more light collecting surface than the largest optical telescope currently in use