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TIL David Bowie hated Gary Numan so much to begin with that he had Numan thrown off the billing of a show they were both booked to appear in

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W7NJY TIL that 12 players in the NL and AL of major leagues have hit .400 since 1900, and that Ted Williams was (just) the last of them. If you expand to Negro Leagues it's 27 players since 1900, and 42 since 1876.
Wm5L TIL that D&D is a very popular game in prisons throughout North America and since dice are not allowed inmates use decks of 20 playing cards to roll
jNAen TIL activists tried to eliminate birthright citizenship from the constitution in 1942 to strip Japanese-Americans of their citizenship, claiming their “racial characteristics” made them “unfit for American citizenship.” It was defeated thanks to a coalition between the JACL, NAACP, and ACLU.
xKew TIL that the President of France is also the Co-Prince of Andorra. Therefore, Andorra is the only country in the world that has a democratically elected monarch.
m1xyp TIL Tattoo needles don’t push ink down into the skin, the ink sits on the skin surface and the vacuum created as the needle exits the skin pulls the ink down into the hole it poked.