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TIL Boston Red Sox OF Mookie Betts bowled a perfect 300 at the World Series of Bowling - in the same week he was awarded an MLB Gold Glove.

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dDyAE TIL Academy Award winning actor Jack Palance was Ukranian. His birth name was Volodymyr Ivanovich Palahniuk.
Elw0 TIL there is a charity that pays $300 to drug addicts if they get sterilized
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