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TIL Pit Bulls were once known as “nanny dogs” because of how kind and protective they were of children.

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e0MQg TIL Major League Baseball is the second-highest earning sports league in the world, behind only the NFL
9wkKm TIL that the oldest surviving globe in the world is named Erdapfel (in English, potato) doesnt feature the american continents since they weren't discoverd yet, and potato's originally came from the continents
BMpx TIL Rats laugh when tickled
Z8rko TIL about the mysterious worldwide epidemic of Encephalitis lethargica. The disease attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless. Between 1915 and 1926, 500,000 dead or incapacitated from it. It disappeared as mysteriously as it came in to the world.
xXkw TIL that immediately after getting in a car accident, comedian Sam Kinison looked relatively unscathed and started talking to no one. He said, “But why?” and then responded, “Okay, okay, okay.” He died shortly thereafter.