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TIL legendary baseball player Ken Griffey Jr. had never stepped foot inside the Baseball Hall of Fame before being inducted this year, because of superstition.

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6Emom TIL that Taylor Swift Re-recorded her own album and produced it under her pseudonym "Nils Sjöberg", under a non-existent cover band, just to make sure that not a single penny goes into the pocket of Scooter Braun, who purchased her work without her knowledge.
mwXv TIL Taser is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s electric rifle”
m1w1O TIL Keanu Reeves has donated more than $31 million for cancer research!
YAeZ TIL the original US Constitution set no term limits on the President. George Washington voluntarily retired from office after two terms, establishing an informal two-term limit. This custom lasted for nearly 150 years until FDR broke the tradition.
oQVY TIL a scientist got a call from his dad saying that the wetlands they used to visit together were extremely polluted and would disappear. He went back and created a recovery project. Paying 90% of expenses by himself he started to clean the lake, and 3 years later thousands of birds had returned.