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TIL Randy Johnson is the oldest pitcher to pitch a perfect game and the only one who accidentally exploded a bird.

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4ZPg TIL in 1990 an unemployed Frenchman, André Gardes, attempted to annex the tiny British island of Sark with a semi-automatic rifle. When a member of the local constabulary complimented his weapon Gardes showed him the rifle, the constable took it and arrested him.
8a6EV TIL mother polar bears nurse their cubs for as long as 30 months. Some cubs stop nursing as young as 18 months of age, but remain with their mothers for survival until they are 30 months old. The average fat content of polar bear milk is 33%, similar to the milkfat content of other marine mammals.
kO4Yd TIL India was controlled by a giant British company, with a private army twice the size of the British army, and not the British government for nearly 100 years (1757–1858) before the British Raj was formed.
JYwQj TIL the Pink Floyd single "Another Brick in the Wall" and the album "The Wall" were banned in South Africa in 1980 after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the apartheid regime
1l64 TIL that in France, only croissants made with 100% pure butter can be straight under culinary law. All others have to be shaped differently.