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TIL Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out

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vPwex TIL that Super Bowl XXVII was originally going to be in Tempe, Arizona. However, due to state blocking Martin Luther King day from being recognized, the NFL moved the game to the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, California instead.
yVLPv TIL Babe Ruth became a shirtmaker as a teenager while attending a reformatory/orphanage. Even during his baseball career, he adjusted his own shirt collars, rather than have a tailor do it
7xmZ TIL that during the American Revolutionary War, despite opposition from the Continental Congress, George Washington ordered the vaccination of 40,000 soldiers from smallpox, reducing the infection rate from 17% to 1%
kOrJg TIL Krusty the Clown was originally Homer Simpson in disguise - with the joke being that Bart hated Homer but loved Krusty
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