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TIL scientists trained a ferret to run through the Fermilab particle accelerator's main ring to keep it clean.

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0QbL TIL that in the early years of baseball, it was common for players to go in the stands and assault heckling fans. Ty Cobb once attacked a handicapped man for calling him a “half-nigger.” Fans shouted at him to stop because the man had no hands, he reportedly retorted “I don’t care if he got no feet”
6lYY TIL “Macho Man” Randy Savage’s first wrestling persona was named “The Spider” and resembled Spider-Man. He would later square off against Spider-Man in the 2002 film.
9YaAp TIL the satanic temple offers academic scholarships to elementary through college students.
rN1Be TIL in 1985, David Lewis Rice tortured Charles Goldmark to get a list of "Communist operatives" and then murdered the entire Goldmark family, acting on rumors he heard accusing Goldmark's father John to have been a Jewish Communist agent
4DPN TIL the last person executed under Oklahoma’s death penalty law, James French, famously said as his last words before death; “How’s this for your headline? French Fries.”