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TIL in California there have been more than 200 attempts over the years to break up the state.

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xVDjB TIL that Jackie Robinson was a baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the B. Dodgers. In 1997, MLB retired his uniform number 42 across all teams; Evey year in april every player wear his number, 42. Chadwick Boseman portrayed him in thefilm "42"
R7Now TIL Dexter Holland, lead singer of punk band The Offspring, was a doctoral candidate for a PhD in molecular biology, but left before graduating as his music career was blossoming. He eventually returned to the University of Southern California to finish his degree, which he was awarded in May 2017.
oWkL TIL sausages have the nickname “bangers” in Britain because during World War II rationing the sausages would be filled with so much water they would explode on the grill.
GAnMG TIL that the United States has a long and storied history of partisan guerilla warfare against its own citizens
pl0Z TIL of Rabban Bar Sauma, a Christian monk from China who travelled from Beijing to Western France at the same time as Marco Polo travelled the opposite way