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TIL Legendary baseball player Ted Williams was future Astronaut John Glenn's Wingman during the Korean War

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mxgmM TIL that former US Senator Harry Reid informed the FBI of an attempted bribe during his time as head of the Nevada Gaming Commission. He participated in the sting that implicated the would be briber and soon after, his wife found a bomb attached to her car.
l78AV TIL that there is a rare form of tumor that can contain hair, teeth, bone and even eyes
8eQDK TIL if you're unmarried when you turn 25 in Denmark, it is customary for your friends and family to cover you in cinnamon
eKZ5 TIL The only time the letter Y is a vowel is when your tongue doesn’t touch your palate (roof of mouth). If it does then it is a consonant. examples being yellow = consonant, sky = vowel.
d88w9 TIL that saying "God Bless You" when someone sneezes likely originated from the time of the bubonic plague wherein one of the symptoms of the disease is sneezing. Saying "God bless you" to someone who just sneezed serves as a prayer for the person for his otherwise certain death.