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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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Eg56X TIL Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son, Chiang Wei-kuo, was an officer candidate in the Wehrmacht from 1936 to 1939 and participated in the Anschluss before being recalled back to China.
X0eZj TIL In 1980, a 30 year old man ate the entirety of a small Cessna aircraft, consumed over the course of 2 years
rN96M Today I learned that the statue of David by Michelangelo is 5.17-metre (17 ft) tall.
j61bQ TIL: Robin Williams autopsy revealed he had about 40% loss of dopamine neurons and almost no neurons were free of Lewy bodies throughout his entire brain and brainstem from Lewy body disease (LBD)