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TIL at 11 years old, Stanley Burrell was a batboy for the Oakland A’s. He was nicknamed “Hammer” because of his resemblance to Hank Aaron. The nickname stuck, and he would later assume the rap name “MC Hammer”

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kOaee TIL In 2002, highly toxic counterfeit cigarettes were being sold in the UK. The cigarettes were produced in unhygienic factory conditions, included tobacco sweepings, sawdust, dirt, banned chemicals. The cigarettes accounted for at least a quarter of all cigarettes smoked in Britain that year.
Lk1BV TIL that 153 years after the last shot was fired, the USA still pays a pension to Irene Triplett, the 86-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran.
XA0X TIL in 2012 Donald Trump ordered a boycott against Glenfiddich scotch, since the whiskey company financially backs the Top Scot award, given that year to Michael Forbes, who was chosen for refusing to vacate his land to make way for Trump’s planned golf course.
yPoJ TIL More West Point graduates have been presidents of foreign countries than the United States
QBXk TIL Illegally smuggling toilets out of Canada and into the United States is an actual thing. Toilets in Canada are 3.5gal per flush and we’re made illegal by the EPA for water conservation.