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TIL the official size of the home plate in baseball is mathematically impossible to create in reality because it requires a right triangle of a size that does not exist.

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ZpXl4 TIL there were people who 'danced themselves to death' in 1518
MeAw8 TIL about the Pork and Beans war, a confrontation in 1838 between the US and the UK over the boundary between New Brunswick and Maine. No one was killed, but two Canadian malitiamen were injured by bears before a treaty was signed.
d8PL8 TIL that on the night that MTV launched, the opening sequence for the network featured footage of the Apollo 11 launch, simply because it was public domain and free to use. It was that opening sequence that connected MTVs image with astronauts, including the Video Music Award “moon man” trophy.
ADLrx TIL, a coywolf (or woyote)is a canid hybrid descended from coyotes, eastern wolves and gray wolves.
xV76k TIL “Tater Tot” is trademarked by a company called Ore-Ida and were created from using leftover scraps from slicing French fries.