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4775 TIL Penn Jillette said in an interview that a big part of Penn & Teller’s success and longevity is due to their never having been close friends
WJMA TIL Dock Ellis once threw a no-hitter while tripping balls on LSD. He claimed to have seen Richard Nixon and Jimi Hendrix, and the footage of the game was locked away because it was “an embarrassment to the league.”
WBY8 TIL that during WWII, the US clandestinely manufactured and distributed a derringer-like pistol to be used by civilian resistance groups in Europe.
Bn1k TIL That an African grey parrot named Alex was the first, and only non-human animal, to ask an existential question: He asked what color he was.
PM5Z TIL that Hitler predicted the Cold War. “there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other – the United States and Soviet Russia.”