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TIL that Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos in 1995

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5VKLk TIL Portuguese Jesuit missionaries João Cabral and Estêvão Cacella became the first Westerners to visit Bhutan and Nepal in 1627
4X7dJ TIL of the Burnden Park Disaster, a crowd crush at a football match in Bolton, England in 1946 in which 33 people were killed. 30 minutes after the crush, with the dead laying at the side of the pitch, the game restarted.
9mdp TIL Carrie Fisher was a script doctor (uncredited writer brought in to fix a movie) on Hook, Sister Act, Lethal Weapon 3, The Wedding Singer, and all 3 of the Star Wars prequels
b97Jp TIL the first thing we develop in the womb is an anus. For the first few seconds of life we are floating anuses .
BXKD TIL that Britain only finished paying its WW2 debts off in 2006, and was only three months shy of bankruptcy when the war ended in 1945