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TIL a group of unpaid volunteers travels around Detroit mowing and cleaning neglected parks. They call themselves “the mower gang”.

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4JEw TIL John Adams, before becoming the second U.S. President, was the lawyer who defended the British soldiers responsible for the Boston Massacre. Six of the soldiers were acquitted, while the other two were convicted of manslaughter and given reduced sentences.
9wpbm TIL A professional baseball player named Chicken Wolf hit a walk-off (game-winning) inside-the-park home run due to an outfielder being bit by a dog.
j6dj TIL A family foreclosed a bank for trying to foreclose them illegally, and then not paying the legal fees when the family won.
5Y60D TIL generic "elevator" music is called muzak after the American brand that dominated the market for background music in retail and public places since the 1930s.
LNm TIL Dave Chappelle is the only person who did commercials for Coke AND Pepsi