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TIL 90% of the wild Tasmanian devil population has disappeared due to an infectious form of cancer

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p8A7p TIL in 2009 2nd baseman Eric Bruntlett made errors on back-to-back pitches putting runners on 1st & 2nd. He then made an unassisted triple play to end the game
e0nn5 TIL the maximum power output of a horse is actually 14.9 horsepower
0w0kR TIL, according to the Chinese Ming-Dynasty (17th century) era book "Wuzazu" by Xie Zhaozhi, the game Rock Paper Scissors dates back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). In Japan, its earliest form "mushi-ken", players picked from a frog (kawazu), a slug (namekuji), or a snake (hebi).
xVryB TIL of super recogniser's. They can remember 80% of the faces they have seen, and have been known to outperform computers. Some are employed by the British intelligence/police. Two of them was used to identify the suspects in the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in 2018 just by reviewing CCTV
MvPb TIL that Denise Nickerson, the girl who played Violet, chewed so much gum on the set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that she ended up with 13 cavities after filming.