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TIL That Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Guess Incorrectly On a Jeopardy Answer...That Involved Him.

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V8aG TIL Rutherford B. Hayes was the first US President to oppose the Spoils System of giving federal jobs to political supporters, wanting instead to pick them by merit according to an examination.
16p87 TIL on 1924, for the Olympic Games, BRitish athlete Eric Liddell refused to run the 100 metres since it was set on Sunday, instead choosing to run the 400 metres
LkA0Z TIL there was a southern fast food chain called Yogi Bear's Honey-Fried Chicken (and fiberglass statues of Yogi, Boo-Boo, Cindy, and Ranger Smith have been dumped into a "graveyard" behind a truck stop in North Carolina).
lo4Gr TIL that France has inheritance laws that automatically give a significant portion of inheritance to each child and children cannot be disowned in the will
b9oop TIL that not all torpedoes are designed to pierce hulls then explode, some detonate below the target ship without making contact. This creates a gas bubble that causes the ship to be thrust out of the water then dropped back into the resulting void, often breaking the vessel in half and sinking it.