TIL that most of what human babies drink in the womb is their own pee
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TIL that major tech companies colluded to not recruit employees from other firms. Apple, google, intel, etc lost a class action lawsuit over it.
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TIL that Ty Cobb, who won 12 batting titles and finished with a career .367 batting average, led the Detroit Tigers to three straight World Series from 1907–1909. They lost all three, and despite playing another 19 seasons, Cobb never reached the World Series again.
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TIL a predominately Black church in Virginia has a stained glass window memorializing Stonewall Jackson because he defied the law and educated slaves
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TIL the first use of the F-word was found in a court record from 1310 naming a man called Roger Fuckebythenavele
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TIL Khrushchev wanted to triple meat production within three years. Alexei Larionov, head of the Ryazan Obkom, promised to do it in a year. He met the goal slaughtering all cows/calves; declared "Hero of Socialist Labour" in 1959, he was fired in 1960 when production plummeted and committed suicide.
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TIL that in 1950, Australia released the Myxoma virus as biological warfare against its invasive rabbit population. The virus killed 99.8% of infected rabbits within two years, reducing the continent's population from an estimated 600 million down to under 100 million.
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TIL a medium baked potato with skin provides more than twice the potassium (900mg) of a banana (450mg)
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TIL in 1807, Portugal’s King John VI fled Napoleon’s invasion and moved his government to Brazil. When he returned to Portugal, he left his son Pedro in charge. In 1822, Pedro declared Brazil independent, fought his father’s kingdom and became Brazil’s first emperor.
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TIL that in the late 19th/early 20th century, Ralph H. Cameron used fraudulent mining claims to acquire land in the Grand Canyon and monopolize tourism there. When the government tried to stop his schemes, he became a delegate to Congress and unsuccessfully ran for governor
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