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TIL Alec Baldwin donates everything he earns from Capital One to charity

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9wDNQ TIL in 1976 groundskeeper Richard Arndt caught Hank Aaron's 755th home run ball & tried to return it to Aaron but was told he's unavailable. The next day the Brewers fired Arndt for stealing team property (the ball) & deducted $5 from his final paycheck. In 1999, he sold it at auction for $625,000.
8eL4V TIL The Andromeda galaxy is approaching us at 250,000 miles per hour ( 402,000 km/h).
9YOV7 TIL In 2014, Walter Williams was pronounced dead. Paperwork was completed, he was put in a body bag and taken to a funeral home. When he was taken to the embalming room, his legs began to move and the coroner noticed him lightly breathing. He was still alive. Two weeks later he died for real.
QaAE TIL A new British owl sanctuary was opened in 2009 just to house all the pet owls abandoned by Harry Potter fans
MeDyA TIL about the trials for Rocket Mail. Since 1810 inventors have tried to deliver mail via artillery, and later rockets. In 1959 the US navy fired a cruise missile filled with mail from a submarine to a Naval base in Florida. Despite enthousiasm by the Postmaster General it was a one time thing.