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TIL The whoopee cushion is older than Christianity

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Y7XL7 TIL While managing an American minor league baseball team playing against the Havana Sugar Kings in 1959, the manager Frank Verdi was wounded by a stray bullet shot during celebrations for the 26th of July National Holiday. The game was called off and the American team fled Cuba.
4Xm1o TIL in the Republic of China the legal birthday of a leapling (person born on February 29th) is February 28th in common years. In Hong Kong, the legal birthday of a leapling is March 1 in common years.
4kexN TIL in 1893, John Nance Garner won the election for county judge of Uvalde County, Texas against Mariette "Ettie" Rheiner. The electoral opponents then started dating and married in 1895. John Garner would go on to serve as U.S. Vice President from 1933 to 1941.
R5oyQ TIL about the British submarine E31 which in WW1 fired the final shots that brought down German Zeppelin LZ 32
8aQQG TIL that Red Bull was sued for 'false advertising' by a consumer after 10 years of drinking Red Bull that he neither grew wings nor any enhanced athletic or intellectual performance.