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

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WoP9 TIL that 101 years before Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin, an African American woman named Elizabeth Jennings refused to be removed from a New York City trolley. Her case in the Brooklyn Circuit Court led to the desegregation of all NYC trolley lines. Her attorney? Future president Chester A. Arthur
R5Y48 TIL the 2006 premiere of Cars was on a Speedway
7D9P TIL the poorly-received 1999 movie “Wild Wild West” was a commercial success, likely due to underage teens buying tickets, only to sneak into American Pie or the South Park movie.
rbYe TIL that in 2008 a man dressed up as Santa and used a homemade flamethrower and several guns to terrorize his ex-wife’s family as revenge for their divorce
M7MDV TIL that the melody of one of my favorite love songs of the 1960’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love” by Elvis was largely inspired by a popular French love song “Plaisir d’amore” which was composed in 1784.