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TIL That Ken Griffey, Jr. played With His Dad during the MLB season of 1990 –and in one game, Sr. and Jr. hit back-to-back home-runs.

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5V0ZR TIL that Windows in Japan has anime-girl mascots called OS-tans. Each of them has the surname of Madobe (窓辺, meaning By the Windowside) and a new one is created for each operating system starting with Windows 7. They have had various tie in products over the years in addition to promoting Windows OS
E1XN0 TIL they're called eggplants because some breeds are white and egg shaped
4XE9J TIL Tomatoes were commonly believed to be poisonous until 1820 when a man in Salem, New Jersey ate a horde of tomatoes in front of a court house in order to disprove the myth. A crowd watched the event waiting for him to die. He didn't.
wo0RE TIL about The Socialist Fraternal Kiss, which was a greeting between communist leaders, involving an embrace and three alternating cheek kisses to symbolize solidarity. In exceptional cases of close personal or political bonds, the gesture involved kisses on the mouth instead of the cheeks.
Onre TIL that James May, from the show Top Gear, got fired from an automobile review magazine for hiding the secret message “So you think it’s really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it’s a real pain in the arse” in his articles.