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TIL That Salvador Dali and Walt Disney Collaborated and Made An Animation Together

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KY666 TIL baseball legend Ted Williams was wingman for astronaut legend John Glenn in the Korean War
4XrMJ TIL, although the narrator begins Moby Dick with the famous opening, "Call me Ishmael," he is not stating his actual name. Rather he is briefly representing his back story with that of Ishmael from the book of Genesis, who was the cast-out son of Abraham born to a slave woman named Hagar.
b94PZ TIL a Pantograph is the accordion-like apparatus on top of a train that draws current from the overhead wires. Its called that due to its resemblance to the other Pantograph, linked sticks which produce a duplicate copy of handwriting and artwork. The word itself means "All writing/drawing."
694AQ TIL the lungs perform the vast majority of or bodies excretion. The majority of weight we lose daily is though our breath, not our butts.
PY9ZO TIL that at birth Johnny Cash was named J. R. Cash. When he enlisted in the United States Air Force, he was not permitted to use initials as a first name, so he changed his name to John R. Cash. In 1955, after signing with Sun Records, he started going by Johnny Cash.