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TIL Charley Pride couldn’t make the majors in baseball, so he did something even more improbable—he became the first black superstar in country music.

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D1xGp TIL Airman Marcus McDilda, shot down Aug. 8, 1945, was interrogated by the Japanese about the U.S. atomic arsenal. McDilda, knowing nothing, "confessed" under torture that America had 100 more bombs and that Tokyo was next. Confident he was telling the truth, the Japanese surrendered.
YZDx TIL: Complex 8 character passwords aren’t that secure. A password of “B!gt1t$^” would take approx 3 days to crack, but “reddit is for nerds” would take 204 TRILLION years to crack.
p81aA TIL people are making Money Right under Our Noses on YouTube (Just found out about this)
8eL8L TIL[nt] about the only word in English with a silent v: Milngavie, a Scottish town.
l7pWK TIL The first person to discover viruses was the plant biologist Martinus Beijerinck. Before that, scientists thought that they were a type of small bacteria.