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TIL the first Wrigley Field was in Los Angeles, not Chicago

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R7bD6 TIL in the 1880s, many farmers communicated by connecting their phones to barbed wire fences. This process often allowed for up to 20 people to be connected at once, everyone’s phone would ring regardless of who called, and the invention helped many farmers overcome depression and loneliness.
4kNJ TIL that in 1981, 8% of personal bankruptcies cited medical costs as a contributing factor compared to 62% in 2009
9wDWM TIL The Rhein-Neckar-Arena in Germany is a stadium with a capacity of 30,150 people, but is situated in a town with only 3,600 inhabitants.
p8ZWG TIL when Beethoven first performed his Ninth Symphony, as he couldn’t hear the rapturous applause it received due to his deafness, one of his singers approached him and turned him around so that he could see the standing ovation he was receiving.
VB08 TIL you cannot create a folder named “CON” in any version of Microsoft Windows.