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TIL ZZ Top album “Eliminator” was certified diamond by the RIAA while never having a #1 single

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xVM5k TIL since the 1950s, every baseball in an MLB game has to be rubbed with mud harvested from a secret location, and the same family has been doing it for three generations
JEMQ TIL men have better spacial cognition than women and can put together IKEA furniture with or without the manual faster than women using the manual. Women’s performance suffered greatly without the manual, but men’s performance showed no major difference with or without the manual.
wxDE TIL Robert E Lee, the General of the Confederate Army, was anti-slavery and wanted to keep the Union intact but was very loyal to his home state of Virginia and choose to fight with the Confederacy because that is where Virginia aligned.
eBdL TIL That in most of the United States you can be fired from your job for basically no reason and have no legal recourse.
wmE1 TIL: Germans in WWI built their trenches with perfect 90 degree angles to prevent pressure waves from mortars from killing soldiers