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TIL Homing pigeons are often mistakenly called carrier pigeons. In fact, they are two different breeds of pigeons. The carrier pigeon was bred for its beauty and the homing pigeon, for its speed and ability to always return home

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BgLQx TIL: When Texas entered the Union as a slave state in 1845, a legal technicality created an ungoverned, lawless strip of land (which later became the Oklahoma panhandle). People from Kansas moved in to evade strict alcohol laws and the (unofficial) capital was called "Beer City".
7rm0Z TIL Winnipeg's Portage and Main is considered the "most famous interesection in Canada". The downtown street is the widest of its kind due to its historic use as an ox cart trail. At its height, the muddy rut-rife passage through town was wide enough to accommodate up to 20 carts at once
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QNPxd TIL that from 1959-1962, Major League Baseball played TWO All-Star games per year. The second one was to raise money for player's pensions, and other charities.
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