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TIL that one of Lou Gehrig's nicknames was "Biscuit Pants"

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W7LKX TIL that in 2021 the FBI released documents on the Kurt Cobain suicide case. In them, several people have presented evidence that Cobain may have been murdered. The FBI hasn't reopened the case because its "outside their jurisdiction".
0YmL TIL that the pirate captain Benjamin Hornigold once attacked a ship just to replace his crew’s hats. They got drunk the previous night and they tossed theirs overboard.
a8AgZ TIL on 10 May 1977, Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith, of Orlando, Florida, were awarded a patent for their variation of the comb over that conceals baldness by combing long hair in three separate directions.
4ylb TIL… When Lord Kelvin claimed the Earth was not old enough to support Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, it was Darwin’s son, George Darwin, who helped prove his calculation invalid due to radiation from the earth’s core.
VB0n8 TIL of Feretron dance - a tradition of moving (bowing) a feretron, mobile relgious icon, in a dancing manner. It originates from Wejherowo Poland and is still practiced today.