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TIL that to join the Civilian Conservation Corps, candidates were required to have at least six teeth.

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P1jeJ TIL Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was a figure skater. In 1914, while living in Canada, he joined an Ottawa club and competed at the Ellis Memorial Cup in Boston.
GYOKN TIL DeForest Kelley joked that one of his biggest fears was that "He's dead, Jim", would be on his tombstone. When he passed away from stomach cancer in 1999, Newsweek led his obituary by saying "We're not even going to try to resist. He's dead, Jim".
awJDb Today I learned that York, William Clark's slave, was one of the first Africans that the Native Americans West of the Mississippi River met. They tried to wash the blackness off of him, and when they discovered that he was in fact human they respected his strength.
69Xk7 TIL that Teddy Bear originiates from an incident in 1902 where President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt refused shooting a black bear.
Y7YNx TIL that Roman-era socks were literally worn with sandals over 2,000 years ago