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TIL that the criminal database at Scotland Yard is known as HOLMES (Home Office Large Major Enquiry System)

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XEBGk TIL that dribbling was already a thing in Japan in 1913-1915... And you could do it with your foot or while carrying a baby on your back. That's not something you see everyday in basketball's NBA.
rNeVW TIL A Chinese Woman Led the Largest and Most Successful Pirate Fleet in History
gMD7L TIL having expulsed Mexican migrant workers in 1965, a program was created to replace the missing labor with American youth. 3300 teenagers ended up picking crops as a summer job. The conditions were so bad that within 2 weeks 200 had quit and many held strikes. The program was never tried again
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4nP5 TIL Deion Sanders is the only man to play in a Super Bowl and World Series. And the first play in two professional league games in the same day. And score a touchdown and hit a home run in the same week.