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TIL Ken Griffey Jr. played for the Chicago White Sox

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ANged TIL about toilet gods. "A toilet god is a deity associated with latrines and toilets... Such deities have been associated with health, well-being and fertility."
Lkr5P TIL during a 1966 film version of Fahrenheit 451, the opening credits were read aloud with no text, since it's about a world without reading matter.