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TIL there is a species of weevil named after baseball player José Bautista

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1mbD TIL Gerald Ford became both American vice-president and president without being elected to either office.
d8REB TIL that the most commonly used sentence in the Harry Potter book series was: “Nothing happened.”; for The Hunger Games series it was: “My name is Katniss Everdeen.”, and for the Twilight series it was: “I sighed.”
gD98 TIL of the FP-45 Liberator, an extremely cheap single shot pistol developed by the US military to be air dropped in occupied territories during WWII. It was intended for use by resistance forces fighting axis powers.
1aWnP TIL that Apollo Astronaut James Irwin told his mother he was gonna be the first man on the moon when he was 12 years old, he ended up being the 8th.
Lkkrd TIL: The original script of Raiders of the Lost Ark called for a sword fight, but due to Harrison Ford getting dysentery, to avoid shooting such a complex scene while that sick, the directors and producers just let him shoot his opponent with his revolver in the film.