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TIL that Babe Ruth’s nickname growing up was Niggerlips because he was darker and had more prominent facial features than his classmates

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5Y4kr TIL Killer bees or Africanized bees were created by humans cross breeding bees in the search for more efficient honey production
WG94 TIL that Los Angeles County in California has a higher population than 43 US states.
xVpdB TIL Mike Tyson once threatened to beat up Michael Jordan while out to dinner with him (and Mike Ditka, Don King, and Richard Dent) because Michael Jordan had briefly dated Mike Tyson's ex-wife years before Tyson even met and married her.
vPRkR TIL the median income of people in the U.S. who describe themselves as full-time authors is just $20,300 when including all book-related activities
E10no TIL that on December 10th, 1963, 15 days after it was lit, the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame in Washington, D.C. was accidentally extinguished by a group of Catholic schoolchildren who were sprinkling it with holy water.