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TIL That Mississippi Only Just Ratified the 13th Amendment, Which Banned Slavery, In 1995.

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p8178 TIL hall of fame baseball player Ken Griffey Jr played pro baseball with his father and became the first-ever father-son duo to play on the same team at the same time. They even hit back to back home runs.
mvmx TIL that ASUS is a shortened form of “Pegasus”, in order to be ranked higher on alphabetical lists.
oBoMW TIL in 2012 authorities discovered over 1,500 pieces of stolen art valued at 1.3 billion in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt. Cornelius never held a job and lived alone surrounded by the art for 40 years. These pieces were to be part of Hitler's Fuhrermuseum.
woG06 TIL that during the battle for the village of Raseiniai, which took place 23–27 June 1941, a lone KV tank held off the advance of the 6th Panzer Division for a single day, before being overrun and knocked out on the morning of June 25.
ZwlD TIL that both the Aztecs and the Buddhist Jataka have an almost identical tale about the rabbit on the moon.