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TIL Greenday's American Idiot was released 20 years ago August 6th

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PYB5E TIL of "Satchel" Paige, who was the oldest major league baseball debutant (at 42) as well as the oldest player to play a major league game (two weeks shy of 60)
W1xA TIL the legend of the chupacabra only dates back to 1995
1xy7 TIL King Arthur had a brother called Madawg
Z8oV4 TIL that in 1829, nineteen Australian convicts revolted and seized a ship near Tasmania, which they then sailed to Japan. Though they offered gifts, including a boomerang, the Japanese expelled them and they ended up being recaptured in China.
5Qr8 TIL: Terry Fox, a 21 year old one-legged cancer patient, ran 3,339miles across Canada in 143 days before dying. He ran the equivalent of a full marathon every day and was the youngest person ever named a Companion of the Order of Canada.