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TIL Wayne Gretzky was never drafted

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e4RJ TIL a Swiss man replaced his car’s broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove
oRNmo TIL the scientist in Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Scientist" really is a scientist -- Dolby hired UK nutritional scientist Dr. Magnus Pike to record the dialog
GXoJ TIL that Kim Peek, the inspiration for the movie Rain Man, was a savant born with significant brain damage who has read over 12,000 books and remembers everything he’s read in them. He reads two pages at once, one with each eye, and remembers it all.
7r4Z TIL on August 16, 1942, a military blimp left San Francisco bay on a routine submarine-spotting mission. A few hours later, the airship wandered back over land and crashed with nobody aboard. Life rafts and other rescue gear had not been touched, and the fate of the 2-man crew has never been solved.
6E6RZ TIL the term "kangaroo court" comes from travelling judges "hopping from place to place, guided less by concern for justice than by the desire to wrap up as many trials as the day allowed."