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TIL 24 writers of the Simpsons went to Harvard

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mDZP TIL that astronauts in the Apollo program reported seeing “streaks” of white light every 3 minutes, even when they closed their eyes.
kpLg TIL that after enlisting in 1942, Audie Murphy was rejected by the Marines for being too short and the navy for being too skinny. The Army accepted him, but did not want to send him into combat because he looked so young. He went on to receive every military award for valor available from the Army.
Z8GjG TIL about the two-week long lion-hyena war over disputed territory in Ethiopia during 1999, where lions killed 35 hyenas and hyenas managed to kill six lions, with the lions eventually taking over the territory.
dDaB7 TIL: Harold Cole was known as one of the "worst traitors" of WW2 by both sides. He was a conman who joined the French Air Force, then joined the Nazis when they took France, then betrayed the Nazis to feed intel the British, then joined the US Army, and then deserted. He was called, "utter shit".
LQkwr TIL the first player to play in Negro League Baseball who would go on to play for a current MLB team was not Jackie Robinson but Pedro Dibut, a White Hispanic player from Cuba who played for Cuban Stars in 1923 and the Cincinnati Reds in 1924