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TIL Rod Blackstone, "The Toast Man," makes two to three loaves of toast at every Charleston WV minor league baseball game. When the home team strikes a player out, Blackstone leads the crowd in declaring "You! Are! Toast!" as he tosses toast to fans.

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9wW7r TIL only people who were of Genghis Kahn's royal lineage were allowed to rule Mongolia. In 1578 Altan Khan bestowed the first title of "Dalai Lama" upon Sonam Gyatsho who in return proclaimed Altan to be the reincarnation of Kublai Khan giving Atlan legitimacy to rule over the Mongols.
gKQD TIL the longest golf drive ever recorded goes to Russian astronaut Mike Lopez-Alegria. In 2004 he used a 6-iron to strike a ball one-handed while tethered to the International Space Station. NASA predicts the ball will fly approximately 1 million miles before disintegrating into Earth’s atmosphere.
Oo9QR Today I learned about the life of Tlatoani Nezahualcoyotl one of the greatest kings of the pre-Columbian era in America and about his incredible life in which he was a poet, engineer, legislator, philosopher, and a war that killed 14 rival kings with his own hands and father of 110 children.
vPXlD TIL that while the United States Armed Forces are forbidden from using flamethrowers by an international treaty, there are no restrictions on civilian use in 48 states and the District of Columbia.
1aaPr TIL after the India-Pakistan partition in August 1947, the Reserve Bank of India served as the Central Bank of Pakistan till June 1948