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TIL the Boston Bombers is the name of the city’s only semi-pro women’s basketball team.

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p8mB4 TIL that Medical Bills and illness account for 2/3 of the bankruptcy filings in the US.
VBwJ4 TIL The origins of hummus are hotly debated with the Lebanese, Turks, Syrians and Israelis all claiming to have invented the dish. International lawsuits and appeals to the UN and the EU have resulted from the so called 'hummus wars.' We do know the dish is likely about 700 years old
pYPjA TIL in The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman's character was asked why he is called "Red" and he jokingly replied, "Maybe because I'm Irish." The character in the book was an Irish man with red hair, but the filmmakers cast Freeman for the role and added the line for humor.
XExj8 TIL that an acre was originally a rectangle made up of furlongs, which were the distance a pair of oxen could plow before resting
NKKQ TIL Al Lewis (Grandpa on The Munsters) used to have Charles Manson babysit his kids.