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TIL that the authors for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” had never been to a ball game before putting together their now-famous song

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W7o64 TIL that scientist Lynn Margulis, famous for the idea that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-roaming prokaryotes, was at one time married to astronomer Carl Sagan.
0d1dp TIL that Chris Farley’s cousin is now the CEO of Ford
Nn7b TIL Charles Ingram cheated on “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” and won the £1,000,000 prize. During the recording it was noticed that a suspicious pattern of coughing could be heard.
W7N0o TIL I learned that the US bombing of Cambodia in the 1970s was requested / approved by the Cambodian government
D1jbe TIL a year after receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, actress Winona Ryder was arrested for shoplifting over 5,000 dollars worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue. Los Angeles D.A. Stephen Cooley assembled a team of eight prosecutors for the case.