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TIL Ken Griffey Jr. played for the Chicago White Sox

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N7KYQ TIL the South Koreans gave up their gold to help their country. The gold-collecting campaign was a national sacrificial movement in early 1998 to repay its debt to the International Monetary Fund. The campaign, involving 3.51 million people nationwide, collected 227 tons of gold worth $2.13 billion.
5YVeB TIL that the hottest sauce in the world is 16 million Scoville units (Tabasco, in comparison, is 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units).
oR5vA TIL that flight crews who are unfamiliar with each other are more prone to making errors.
M7DgV TIL the Canadian PM's office will send a personalized certificate for milestone birthdays and anniversaries
gMWg4 TIL Ringo Starr featured in a Japanese apple juice commercial because his name sounded like 'Ringo Sutta' , meaning grated apple in Japanese.