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TIL that Rick James fled from America due to a Vietnam draft card he had received, and then settled in Canada where he met Neil Young and started his musical career.

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jN1Pa TIL As the 2011Joplin Tornado hit the local pizza hut, store manager, Christopher Lucas herded 4 employees and 15 customers into a walk-in freezer. Since the door could not shut, he wrapped a bungee cable holding the door shut around his arm until he was sucked into the tornado, killing him.
RBQa TIL the British successfully destroyed a Nazi drydock by ramming a ship filled with six tons of explosives into it, leaving the ship wedged in the gates until the timers detonated the explosives.
VMYJ0 TIL of Magic the Miniature Therapy horse, who routinely visited hospital patients needing comfort. She visited one patient who had not spoken for three years; Upon seeing the horse, she said ‘Isn’t she beautiful?’ It caused the staff to break out in tears
MeR47 TIL: The reason wedding rings are worn on the third finger is because in ancient Rome, it was believed that the vein in the third finger went straight to the heart.
9YbOQ TIL US you do not actually have the right to a trial by jury unless the sentence is greater than 6 months