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TIL Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents.

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kOxD7 TIL in 2012, a burger king employee anonymously posted an image on 4-chan of him putting his feet in lettuce, with the caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." It took 20 minutes for people to track down the branch the employee worked at and contact the news. He was promptly fired.
b649p TIL nazi preparations to invade Britain (Operation Sea Lion) after France fell in 1940 were obvious to the British, so they began to bolster their defenses to make any invasion as costly as possible. This included removing all street, road, and railway signs to sow maximum confusion in the enemy.
LQNVd TIL the largest example of fossilized human feces ever found was 8 inches (20 cm) long and 2 inches (5 cm) wide
wowKM TIL that Two train stations in the United States, Pennsylvania Station in New York City and the Chicago Union Station were built with architecture that is based on the Frigidarium of the Baths of Caracalla. Unfortunately, many years ago, Penn Station was redeveloped.
R5j06 TIL: Kevin Costner grew up in Compton - a historically crime-ridden city within Los Angeles County