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TIL Mr. Rogers has a hockey card and is one of the only celebrity captains of a team to receive this honor.

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NlpQ TIL President James A. Garfield entertained friends by writing in Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.
M7xMm TIL that a dam project in Tennessee resulted in the seizure of family farmland into high-end real estate, the near extinction of a fish species, a Supreme Court case, and the loss of Native American sites.
KjEB TIL that in 1945 Japanese sailors once submerged a sub while 90 European prisoners including children were on deck, leaving them to be eaten by sharks.
eQME TIL that in 1859, an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. In the ensuing confrontation, 461 Americans and 14 artillery faced 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig
kOEj5 TIL that although lunar maria (dark basins on the moon) are usually named after psychic states, the IAU accepted the Soviet-discovered-and-named Mare Moscoviense on the basis that Moscow is a state of mind