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TIL the Chicago Cubs have a following in Belize, because in the early 80's the only channel in the country was a pirate feed of WGN.

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4Xo5X TIL a New York deaf man sued Pornhub for not providing closed captioning to all of their videos. Despite Pornhub's VP asserting that they do have a closed captions video section, the man's lawsuit specifically cites “Hot Step Aunt Babysits Disobedient Nephew" as a video that lacked closed captions.
4kmPw TIL We may have a 50/50 chance of having discovered a planet that is 12.4 lightyears away that supports, and has markers for, at least primitive life already existing
wLevY TIL that Monty Python and the Holy Grail originally included the characters riding on real horses but they could not afford to rent them so they were forced to add in the iconic coconut bit, which is an old radio trick.
bbv9 TIL that hippos often enjoy licking massive crocodiles.
gMvd9 TIL that hurricanes used be named only after women. After feminist groups protested over the implied slur that women alone were tempestuous and unpredictable, men’s names were also used for such weather phenomena beginning in 1979.