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[TIL] In the early days of baseball, the umpire sat behind home plate in a padded rocking chair.

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AD5xn TIL about Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, and naturalist who hunted and killed a number of man eating tigers and leopards. One tiger he had killed, the Champawat tiger, had killed an estimated 436 people (the highest number of people killed by a tiger.)
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MeWB7 TIL about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed 4 media conglomerates to buy out all successful indie hip-hop labels, eventually making hip-hop less about art & social change & more about crime, gang life, & sex as those sold more records, according to Prof Tricia Rose of Brown Uni.