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TIL The average baseball game has about 18 minutes of action and is 90% standing around

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Z8KbY TIL of compass plants which tend to align their leaf blades on a North-South axis. This is the optimal alignment for minimal sunlight exposure.
X0vY8 TIL James Gunn hosted a reality show about the next Scream Queen in a horror film, and eliminated a contestant uncomfortable with performing a sexual scene.
nWnbb TIL The blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield got famous through a media blitz and a series of intentional wardrobe malfunctions. Mansfield's strategically busting seams got her constant coverage, even her measurements were nationally famous. In 1960 Mansfield was in more print than anyone else on earth.
7r1dM TIL that leap years are every 4 years, but if it's divisible by 100 we skip it, unless it's divisible by 400 then we add it back, UNLESS it's divisible by 8000, in which case it will be skipped
69N0X TIL Anna Jarvis the founder of Mother's day came to regret it and actively campaigned against those who were trying to profit from it.