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TIL Bob Barker is Macklemore’s step grandfather

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v1de8 TIL there was a Tennessee Republican politician who changed his middle name to 'Low tax' so that it would appear on the ballot box, murdered his political opponent in a later senatorial race, was sentenced to life and died in prison.
Wk8Mo TIL about Ray Chapman: the only player to die from injury during a MLB game. It was allowed at the time to do anything to the ball from using saliva to dirt, making the ball hard to see. Chapman is believed to not have seen the ball at all which struck him in the head and killed him
xVnX5 TIL honey bees are not and have never been on the endangered species list
eAgD TIL Eldon Hoke claimed that he knew who killed Kurt Cobain, but said he would “let the FBI catch him”. Two days after that interview was filmed, he was hit by a train and killed.
gM8nD TIL The Romans used to send each other little postcards made of a thin layer of flexible wood written on in ink and then folded in two. About 400 tablets (in fragments) were found near where Hadrian's wall would be built. They tell us a great deal about the nature of life on the Roman frontier.