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TIL July 1st is Bobby Bonilla Day

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gAb9 TIL the first ever aerial photograph of an American city is of Boston in 1860. The photo, made from a hot air balloon, is titled: “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It”
X0gL8 TIL of the Bantu expansion, where Bantu people spread from modern day Cameroon to almost all of Sub-Saharan Africa.
kOEj5 TIL that although lunar maria (dark basins on the moon) are usually named after psychic states, the IAU accepted the Soviet-discovered-and-named Mare Moscoviense on the basis that Moscow is a state of mind
w7kM TIL The Hammer of Thor is one of the official religious emblems available for headstones in U.S. military cemeteries.
8eGG8 TIL the longest (distance) recorded cloud-to-cloud lightning strike was 477 miles stretching from Texas to Mississippi, and the longest (duration) lightning strike was 17 seconds and happened over Uruguay.