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TIL the Chicago Fire FC won the Major League Soccer (MLS) Cup as well as the U.S. Open Cup in their first season in 1998.

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QJGp9 TIL Liu Xiaobo, the first Chinese citizen to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China, was imprisoned 4 times for his human rights activism and spent more than 13 years in prison since his return to China in 1989.
RnK8 TIL that the Greater Honeyguide, a bird from sub-Saharan Africa, leads humans to bee colonies and, after we take the honey, feeds on the larvae and beeswax. It seems to only use humans and likely evolved this behaviour with early men. Honeyguides may be mankind’s oldest buds, even before dogs.
NKp6 TIL of Ralf Bialla, a German magician who was famous for performing the “bullet catch,” using his teeth. He was seriously injured nine times, which caused constant dizziness, which eventually led to his death when he fell off of a cliff.
jNnZM TIL that the pigment Prussian Blue, used extensively in "Starry Night" and "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", was first synthesized by cooking blood with potash.
5Y57Q Til of the Cagots, a minority population in Europe in medieval times. They were shunned, hated, and segregated from entering taverns or touching food in markets. They were not an ethnic or religious group and were indistinguishable from other people, and no one knows why they were so despised.