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

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AD8A7 TIL There are more multi-cellular zooplankton per square kilometer in the Chukchi Sea than there are stars in the Milky Way and collectively there are plankton than there are galaxies in the observable universe.
9Yx5p TIL farmers only need to leave a door open for five minutes for the farm to qualify as "free-range". Apart from the "open door", no other criteria for environmental quality, number of birds, or space per bird, are defined.
ANW8w TIL about Tippu Tip (1832 – June 14, 1905), an Afro-Omani ivory and slave owner, trader, explorer, governor, and plantation owner. By 1895, he had acquired seven plantations and 10,000 personal slaves. He is considered one of the most successful slave traders in history.
LnKp TIL about a protest in a village in Turkey. The women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the water line. They got what they wanted in one month.
JmbQ TIL The Popeyes fast food chain got it’s name from the main character in a crime thriller played by Gene Hackman not from the cartoon character