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TIL Dave Chappelle will dress as Prince on Prince’s new album cover

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exLg TIL that a minor league pitcher was once traded for ten 34" maple bats.
6MeY TIL that American English likely has more in common with Shakespearean English than modern British English does.
nApG TIL that during the making of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou’ the Coen brothers had someone on set just to catch snakes using a golf club. When asked what to call somebody with this profession, he said 'an idiot.’
v14j8 TIL that British WWII General, Bernard Montgomery, first courted a woman when he was in his late thirties in 1925. His approach to romance included "drawing diagrams in the sand of how he would deploy his tanks and infantry in a future war." Said young woman declined his proposal for marriage.
4gOw TIL the Greek and Roman word for giraffe was ‘camelopardalis’, because they believed it was an unnatural hybrid of a camel and a leopard.