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TIL The expiration dates on plastic water bottles is for the plastic bottles not the water.

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0BMv TIL Bob Feller pitched a game against the White Sox on Mother’s Day 1939 with his family in attendance. One of his pitches was fouled off into the seats, into the face of his own mother right above the right eye, resulting in her needing seven stitches. Feller went on to win the game.
OoZje TIL Kurds are the Closest Relatives of Jews "In 2001, a team of Israeli, German, and Indian scientists discovered that the majority of Jews around the world are closely related to the Kurdish people – more closely than they are to the Semitic-speaking Arabs or any other population that was tested."
b9EDZ TIL the United States has no Official Language
0J1L TIL in 2001 the Taliban in Afghanistan dynamited and destroyed the two largest standing Buddhist statues in the world, both over 100 feet tall and more than 1400 years old.
9j9X TIL in 1851, we had measuring tools with a precision of one millionth of an inch.