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TIL no one really knows what the H in "Jesus H. Christ" stands for

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RkJ1 TIL Neil Armstrong before leaving for the Apollo 11 Space mission signed hundreds of autographs and had them dropped in the mail on the exact date of their moon mission, in case he died during the mission and his family could monetize his autographs.
5YPV8 TIL that Nigerian scammers once convinced a Brazilian bank to send them $242 million over the course of three years to "invest" in the profits of a new airport. The airport in question never actually existed.
N7naE TIL that actress Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) played the role of "Biker Mama" (of Satan's Helpers) in Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985).
wLdAJ TIL baseball was mentioned in a Jane Austen novel written about forty years before Albert Spalding claimed the game was invented in America.
loVkN TIL that urine doesn't come directly from your digestive tract, but is produced by filtering your blood... Feels like I should have known that.