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TIL that "Pistol" Pete Maravich, the greatest college basketball scorer of all time, and NBA all-star, was born with one coronary artery, while the rest of us have two. He died while playing a pickup basketball game at age 40. At death his heart was scarred and enlarged from oxygen deprivation.

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grODL TIL that many Union veterans of the US Civil War worked in the marketing campaign for the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, canvassing to sell subscriptions to the book that the dying and destitute general wrote to provide an income to his family. Grant's memoirs became a bestseller of the 19th Century.
kx8B TIL that in the ‘90’s, copies of “Lassie” VHS tapes were intercut with racy porn videos and distributed back around video stores in their original packaging
Zp0pB Today I learned Saint Patrick of Ireland is also considered a saint within the Orthodox Church because he lived before the Great Schsim of 1054 between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
b6YoQ TIL nutmeg and mace come from the same fruit of the same tree
XEn4k TIL that Edison used Bamboo filaments supplied by his assistant from Kyoto until he developed Tungsten filament and the shrine hosts a 'light festival' complete with lit bamboo lanterns and the American anthem to honor this exchange