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TIL that the Deputy Commanding General of the US Army's 82nd Airborne is a British Paratrooper

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woXbM TIL that Belgium is the world's market leader in producing and exporting snooker and billiard balls.
b9Ed7 TIL that Big Bird from Sesame Street almost went on the Challenger space shuttle to teach kids about space. The reason he didn’t was because his costume was too big.
rAA4 TIL there was an astronomically unlucky astronomer: His first expedition to India to study the Transit of Venus was thwarted by clouds and war; his second 8 years later by the only cloudy day in months. Upon returning he found that he was legally dead, his wife remarried, and his estate was pilfered
MJ78 TIL a chimpanzee named Santino was known to collect rocks and pieces of concrete in the hour before his exhibit opened. Come showtime, he would hurl the dessert plate-sized rocks at zoo patrons.
e0ejb TIL that American singer Kesha got a near-perfect score on her SATs and was accepted to Barnard College at Columbia University, but instead chose to drop out before graduation to pursue her music career.