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TIL Frank Sinatra never learned to read sheet music his whole career

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Bg76D TIL Kermit & Theodore Roosevelt Jr. were the first westerners to shoot a giant panda.
b9O5a TIL that domestic gas is scented with a 'rotten egg smell' so it's easier to detect. Gas itself is odourless.
76p7 TIL that in 2012 the NYPD committed a man to a mental hospital when he claimed to be a Navy SEAL after being arrested for running a red light and weapons possession. It was soon confirmed that he was in fact an active duty Navy SEAL, and he was released with all charges against him deferred.
16r1V TIL: We know exactly who was the first person to LOL: some guy from Canada called Wayne Pearson
jNLZX TIL a referendum that created term limits in California was passed in 1990 despite the fact that the campaign against term limits spent 31 times the money compared to the supporters of term limits