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TIL U.S. WWII internment camps didn't just hold American Japanese. U.S. citizens of Italian, Irish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish ancestry; most arrested and detained as “Germans.”

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N7Q0M TIL: In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit is first, and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants.
rNMo TIL that the first male to win the tennis Career Golden Slam, Andre Agassi (winning all four Grand Slam tournaments and the Olympic gold), is married to the first female tennis player, Steffi Graf, to do the same.
y0v8 TIL that in 1963 Frank Sinatra’s son was kidnapped and the kidnappers demanded to be called on payphone, during one call Frank ran out of coins and thought it cost him his son. Thankfully he got his son back but he was never without a roll dimes again for the rest of his life.
PYYOV TIL There is a movie called "Rubber" and it's about a car tire that kills people.
xVQY1 TIL that an infant king in 16th century Hungary was kept alive by being placed inside recently slain animal corpses, a primitive form of incubator.