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TIL the oldest ball court in the world is in Paso de la Amada in modern day Mexico, dated to 1400 BCE.

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wLZjE TIL strengths (9 letters) is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
1aaWP TIL: In Feb. 2016 CA SB-1463 proposed laws to mitigate wildfire risks posed by overhead power lines. It passed House & Senate unanimously. Gov Brown vetoed it. California had the deadliest wildfires in history, caused by overhead power lines.
mx1nR TIL that when Charles Manson was a child, his mom sold him for a pitcher of beer to a woman who wanted to have children.
vMK7 TIL after selling Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, game creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson bought a $70 million 8-bedroom, 15-bath mansion in Beverly Hills, the most expensive house in the city’s history. He also outbid Jay-Z and Beyoncé, who were also looking to buy the house.
dDZnB TIL famed physicist Richard Feynman donated "93 boxes" of papers and writings to Caltech, which has never digitized any of it and will only provide access physically in the reading room of the Caltech Archives to qualified researchers. Caltech holds no copyright on the work.