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TIL that Al Capone’s WWI draft card claimed he was a “paper cutter”

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l7XKA TIL Jelly Babies we’re originally marketed as ‘Unclaimed Babies’
rNld1 TIL Thomas Wedders (also known as Thomas Wadhouse) was an 18th-century circus performer who is said to have had the world's longest nose. His nose was allegedly 7.8 inches (20 cm) long. He was born in Yorkshire, England, around 1730 and died around 1780.
YpMDZ TIL about Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old female pitcher for the Double-AA Chattanooga Lookouts, once played the New York Yankees in an exhibition game and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.
YpKm7 TIL that hydras (small organisms) are practically inmortal and don’t seem to age at all
j6xrQ TIL the first fax machine was introduced in 1865, 11 years before the telephone