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TIL Ty Cobb’s father suspected his wife of cheating. He hid behind curtains hoping to prove it and she shot him dead thinking he was an intruder

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gr0e8 TIL in the men's outdoor pole vault, the top 8 all-time performances are all by Armand Duplantis, and the top 24 performances are shared by Duplantis and Sergey Bubka—seventeen of those by Duplantis and seven by Bubka.
v1r4K TIL that the grippy texture on metal tools is called Knurling
m1WNR TIL about St. Felix's flood of 1530. A flood that left large parts of the low countries uninhabitable and allegedly killed more than 100,000.
QkPk TIL baby elephants still need to learn how to drink using their nose, that it’s not one of their instincts.
GY707 TIL that Alan Alda met his wife at a dinner party on the Upper West Side, when a rum cake accidentally fell onto the kitchen floor and they were the only two guests who did not hesitate to eat it.