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TIL that Eric Stuart (Brock and James from the original Pokémon anime and Kaiba from the Yu-Gi-Oh anime) is a musician as well as a voice actor, and he has toured with Peter Frampton, Ringo Starr, Hall & Oates, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Chicago. Peter Frampton produced his album "Blue, Dressed in Black".

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OGerL TIL Part of the land where the Pentagon sits today used to be a hemp farm
rxWe TIL that in 1874 a satirical article was published claiming that a women was impregnated by a bullet that plunged through the testicle of a soldier. The story persisted as a medical fact as late as 1959
rGYd TIL Billionaire cocaine smuggler Sal Magluda won 3 National Powerboat Championships and frequently appeared on TV despite being a fugitive; nobody noticed for 6 years
loon5 TIL that during the Vietnam war 30,000 American draft dodgers fled to Canada, the same number as Canadians that volunteered to fight
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