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

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R5Km8 TIL That the precursor to the CIA published a field manual for regular people in Occupied Europe to resist the Nazis at their regular jobs
epjp6 TIL rats passed plague to fleas, who unleashed death across history. The Yersinia pestis bacteria clogged the fleas guts, making them ravenous but unable to swallow. Desperate, they bit wildly, vomiting infection into each victim. This unstoppable cycle of horror wiped out millions over centuries!
0d5OR TIL of the bliss point; a point where, in processed foods, the levels of salt, sugar, and fat cause people to feel the food is "just right." Bliss point foods commonly produce cravings, and can bypass the body's satiety signals and lead to overeating
kmWW TIL: To prove anti-minority bias, a white NYC prosecutor tried to get himself arrested by graffiti-ing City Hall … and it took five days of confessions and blogging before they arrested him.
NXAyJ TIL Leonardo da Vinci did detailed experiments to understand the nature of gravity long before Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton.