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TIL that the late Dean Of Game Shoe Hosts, Bill Cullen, was pilot in the Army Air Forces during WW II. What made this feat so amazing is that he was disabled due to contracting polio at the age of 18 months and a drastic automobile accident in 1937. Because of this, he was stationed stateside.

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j64GN TIL Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school of philosophy in 335 BCE and many of the free lectures were open to the general public. He liked to walk around while holding discussions with students and it had no set curriculum or even fees for membership
8e8XX TIL the USPS strike of 1970 was one of the largest wildcat strikes in US history. The workers got true collective bargaining rights, better working conditions, and fair pay after only 8 days striking
wNB7 TIL that due to a law passed in 1953, it is illegal in Ohio to arrest a person on Sunday, on the Fourth of July, or on your way to a place of worship, unless the crime is a felony, treason, or is a breach of peace.
8GrL TIL that six soviet cosmonauts, while working in space on the MIR station, reported to mission control all six of them were seeing aliens with human faces and large wings. Pravda confirmed the report and said that it was a group hallucination.
AlMB TIL that Newgrange is a 5,000-year-old tomb and time-telling device. At dawn from Dec. 19th-23rd, a narrow beam of light penetrates the passage chamber and the entire room becomes dramatically illuminated for just 17 minutes. There is a lottery to determine the few witnesses of the event each year.