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TIL Tom Waits voiced a dog food commercial in 1981

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d8NQZ TIL the 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) was the last US Cavalary regiment to engage in horse mounted warfare. They operated well into WW2 and even once repulsed a Japanese Tank Assault at Binalonan, Pangasinan
0wy5j TIL Sardinians split off from mainland Europeans about 4300-7000 years ago and have remained largely isolated genetically. They're the closest proxy to the Early European farmers who migrated all over Europe from Anatolia, introduced agriculture, and mostly replaced the European hunter-gatherers
wLYB7 TIL rapper Big Sean's grandmother was one of the first black female captains in World War II, and she also worked as a police officer in Detroit
P1EXJ TIL that the US Navy had the largest naval fleet in history with 6768 ships at the end of World War II
epnAk TIL the then captain of the New York Yankees died in a plane crash in 1979. Thurmon Munson was named Captain in 1976, the team's first since Lou Gerhig (1939), won ROTY, gold glove 3x in a row, & led Yankees to 3 World Series from 1976 to 1978, winning in '77 & '78. He was 32 years old.