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TIL the guy responsible for many of the sex act images on Wikipedia is gloriously named SeedFeeder and drew inspiration from airline safety guides.

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GAJ44 TIL baseball player John Lindsey spent a record 16 years in the minor leagues before being promoted to the major leagues. He made just 12 appearances in Major League Baseball before breaking his hand. He was sent back down to the Minor Leagues at the start of the next season.
lKdG TIL Ten times more people die every year from the side effects of prescription drugs than die from illegal drug use.
loGZB TIL that approximately 25,000 golf balls are lost each year at the CDA Resort Golf Course in Idaho under the only floating green in the world.
dpM8 TIL Warren Buffet has won a $1 million bet for 6 out of the last 7 years that the S&P 500 will beat a famous hedge fund portfolio return’s
oRjer TIL that in 1923, a man named Harry Grindell Matthews claimed he invented a “death ray” and demonstrated it to the British military - but the device never worked and he kept disappearing with the demonstration equipment.