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TIL sharks have been around for longer than trees

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XEg7k TIL about Charles Curtis, the first and only Native American Vice President of the United States
JY1LQ TIL that Ricky Gutierrez set the Major League Baseball record for seeing the most pitches in a single at-bat (20) in 1998 against a pitcher, Bartolo Colon, who nearly 20 years later is still an active player.
69QMl TIL Thomas Jefferson regularly attended many different churches and declared "I am of a sect by myself" unlike many of the other devoted founding fathers.
9Yk8M TIL That for Black Sabbath's best selling album "Paranoid" the band booked two days in the studio but only used one, recording the entire album in just a few hours.
JDWl TIL that serial killer Ted Bundy took advantage of an obscure Florida law that states that any declaration of marriage in a courthouse with the presence of a judge constitutes a legal marriage. He married during the trial in which he was sentenced to death.