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TIL Some chipmunks eat frogs and baby birds.

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kOXdB TIL in August 1968 after being turned down by 19 other teams, the Atlanta Braves signed 62-year-old pitcher Satchel Paige so he could get his MLB pension. He needed only 158 days on an active roster to reach the five-year minimum required to receive his pension. He collected $250 a month.
b9XpQ TIL Due to its physical intensity, the average hockey player typically loses between 5-10 pounds of water weight in a game.
1lZW TIL that Bell telephone could have made the internet back in the 1960s if their “picturephone” service had not flopped.
p8r0b TIL that by law no US officer can outrank George Washington. He was promited to 6 star general in 1976.
w4ZW TIL that the oldest alliance in the world is between the UK and Portugal, and is over 700 years old.