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gM0m9 TIL two famous baseball players, Joe Garagiola Sr. and Yogi Berra, grew up across the street from each other and were childhood friends.
yVoDp TIL that the brothers who founded Friendly's lived to 102 and 106, with the older brother having a copy of Monticello constructed to celebrate his 100th birthday
VBojm TIL that The National Library of Medicine has a Pillbox dataset made up of 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of unknown pills.
QJnkE TIL that many of the velociraptor sounds in Jurassic Park were actually distorted recordings of tortoises mating
rP5d TIL that when Darryl McDaniels (DMC of RUN DMC) was suicidal, the only thing keeping him from killing himself was Sarah McLachlan’s album “Angel.” He met her at a party, told her what her album meant to him, and said, “Your album is called ‘Angel.’ You sing like an angel. But to me, you are God.”