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TIL in all 5 major North American sports, none of the teams that hold the respective winningest season record won the championship that same season

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Xl6k TIL that bear hair has been found in the scats of “El Jefe”, the only wild jaguar in the United States.
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78gJM TIL That FDR proposed the ‘Four Policemen’ where the US, UK, Soviet Union and China would each would control and oversee their sphere of influence. Countries other than those four were to be disarmed. Only the Four Policemen would be allowed to possess any weapons more powerful than a rifle
Ee70 TIL that it is illegal to only own one guinea pig in Switzerland … you must own a partner
Dm1Y TIL Lord Acton’s famous quote ‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ is immediately followed by 'Great men are almost always bad men’.