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TIL someone beat The Price is Right. After spotting the patterns, Terry Kneiss got on the show, and won by guessing prices to the dollar.

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kDDm TIL when Stalin’s first son was captured, Hitler offered to trade him for Friedrich Paulus, a field marshal who led the 6th army into Stalingrad. When Stalin heard of this, he allegedly said, “I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.”
5VrJP TIL the 1981 Nashville Sounds went 81-62 (.566) winning the Western Division of the Southern League (AA). Their star players were Don Mattingly and Willie McGee, who were both 1985 MLB MVP's.
GYE5N TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century.
P11EO TIL During WWII the US navy kept two aircraft carriers positioned in the Great Lakes
vjr4 TIL that the American Mustache Institute is very real and their slogan is “Protecting the rights of, and fighting discrimination against mustached Americans, by promoting the growth, care, and culture of the mustache”