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TIL that Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak died by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt after a bystander hit the assassin with a purse

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Berb TIL that the song title “Cake by the Ocean” originated when DNCE’s Swedish producers mistranslated the phrase “sex on the beach” to “cake by the ocean”.
ExQ0 TIL That there is a community of 4 inch long amoebas that live in the Marianas trench. They are the largest single celled organisms in the world and are incredibly toxic.
0doNp TIL - Mauritius has a Species of pigeon called the Pink pigeon, it came very close to extinction in the 20th century however conservation efforts have kept the species alive and growing.
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
EoJV TIL: Ice-T has a metal band, and is actually…pretty fucking metal.