Post * R7Gd6 — Curious Curator

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TIL Hall of Fame MLB pitcher Randy Johnson kept a bag of baseballs by his bed for self defense.

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dDKDQ TIL, On saturn, it literally rains diamonds | BBC Earth

W7RnL TIL that during WWII, eight American pilots were shot down and cannibalized after being captured on Chichijima, while the only survivor was future President George H. W. Bush.

XEYJE TIL about the plan of a German man in the 1920s to drain some of the Mediterranean sea in order to merge Africa with Europe.

mDO TIL Parts of New York City have a vacuum-driven garbage-collection system that literally sucks trash through pipes under the streets to a central disposal location–and has had it for 35 years.

kLbB TIL that the streets of Seattle Washington were elevated in the 19th century leaving a network of underground tunnels and basements that use to be ground level.