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TIL Big Bird was nearly a passenger on the doomed Challenger

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P1EXJ TIL that the US Navy had the largest naval fleet in history with 6768 ships at the end of World War II
OGA54 TIL that Sting accidentally sat on a piano at the beginning of “Roxanne” and they kept it in the recording.
WPBo TIL barber Poles are are a legacy of the barber-surgeons’ practice of bloodletting. The red represented the blood, the white the bandages, and the blue the protruding veins. This double job was legal until 1745.
Y7jPP TIL on May 16, 1957, Yankees stars Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra attended a birthday party for Billy Martin at NYC’s Copacabana. A fight broke out when intoxicated bowlers yelled racial slurs at Sammy Davis Jr. One bowler, a Bronx deli owner, suffered a concussion and a broken jaw.
ANdYo TIL that the vertebrate with the shortest lifespan is a fish called the Pygmy Goby. It has a maximum lifespan of 59 days.