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TIL that wildly successful country singer Marty Robins of “El Paso” fame also had a moderately successful 13 year side-career as a self funded NASCAR driver

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Z8kZD TIL in 1824, Thomas Jefferson introduced legislature for the United States to end slavery by purchasing all slave children, train them for various skills and crafts, and then send them to the Dominican Republic.
pv1p TIL that due to a perfect combination of depth, altitude and temperature bodies that drown in Lake Tahoe rarely surface OR decompose.
Y5xA TIL When Wong Shun Leung (Bruce Lee’s master and Ip man’s student) was asked if he was the best fighter in the world, he replied, “No, only the second best”; when asked who was the best, he said, “I have not met him yet.”
pLy4 TIL of Buzzwinkle. An urban Moose in Anchorage, AK whom was found drunk on crabapples in a bar and who walked around the city adhering to crosswalks.
yVY0v TIL the British submarine HMS Poseidon sank in 1931 after a collision with a Chinese steamship; 21 crew died in the incident. In 1972, the sub was secretly salvaged by China which wasn't known about in the West until a journalist discovered its description in a 2002 Chinese magazine article.