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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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bgVZ TIL dogs kick after they pee and poo to mark their territory further, not necessarily to cover it up. The glands in their paws help to mark and spread their scent in the dirt and grass surrounding the area.
X0rmr TIL Thomas Jefferson, USA's Third President, developed the first Swivel Chair - and arguably the first modern office chair
9LMG TIL: The Zika virus is the first insect-borne disease that has been shown to pass from human to human by sexual contact. Zika is normally transmitted by mosquitoes. It has symptoms similar to dengue fever.
8a9GP TIL Anti Video Game activist Jack Thompson once said that if someone made a game about shooting up E3 than he would donate 10,000$ to charity. He refused to donate once the game actually got made
7vgZ TIL a Russian immigrant to NY in the 1920s, Lillian Alling was so homesick that she resolved to walk home to Siberia. She walked an estimated 5000 miles in 3 years, serving a few months in jail for vagrancy in Canada, and was last sighted on the banks of the Bering Strait.