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TIL The first recorded steel cage wrestling match happened between Jack Bloomfield and Count Rossi in Atlanta, Georgia June 25th, 1937. The cage was a circular chicken wire structure.

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7wYb TIL that Mr. Rogers saw to it that every letter he received got an answer.
8aMpX TIL the parents of 17-year-old Jesse Shipley who had died in a car crash only learned that authorities had kept his brain when his classmates went on a field trip to a morgue and saw a jar labeled Jesse Shipley that had a brain in it.
m1vav TIL in 1656 Boston, a ship's captain was sentenced to sit in the stocks for two hours because he had engaged in "lewd and unseemly behavior" on the Sabbath. Upon arriving home on a Sunday after a three-year voyage at sea, Captain Kemble had kissed his wife
D19gv TIL that yawning and stretching at the same time is called "pandiculation." It's apparently very important in waking up our nervous system.
4XVow TIL maize, beans and squash, the three main agricultural crops of Native Americans were named Three Sisters by them for their symbiotic relationship when grown together. Maize gives structure for the beans to climb, beans provides nitrogen to the soil and squash spread-grows preventing weed growth.