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Yp4vZ TIL that a man calling himself Jack "Dolly" Gray managed to play several games in the 1923 NFL football season before it was realized he was an impostor who had lied about his background. The impostor's true identity was never discovered.
oRVjE TIL there is a Hindu Patron God of Transgenders
69RX7 TIL the most expensive error banknote is a US $20 bill with a Del Monte fruit sticker stuck to it that sold for $396K in 2021. It was discovered in 2003 when a college student got it from an ATM & sold it online for $10K. Experts believe the sticker was likely placed deliberately by a bored employee
vPlAx TIL that although Motorhead frontman Lemmy was an avid gambler, he preferred slot machines. However, when writing the song “Ace of Spades,” he realized that he couldn’t make a song about spinning wheels with pictures of fruit on them, so he sang about cards and dice instead.
N79K8 TIL Prince William will be the first English king (>50% English ancestry) of the UK/England since 1066. Normandies to Plantagenets were French, Tudors were Welsh, Stuarts were Scots, Hanovers to Windsors were Germans, QE2 is half-Scottish, and Charles is half-Greek.