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TIL that 98-year-old retired Major League Baseball player Bobby Shantz is the last living person to have played for the Athletics when they were in Philadelphia, as well as the last living person to have played under legendary manager Connie Mack.

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rrXe TIL in 1988, the administrative law judge for the DEA stated: “Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality”.
X01jk TIL the urban legend of a time capsule buried under the Georgia Guidestones was disproven after they were destroyed.
PYovg TIL that when emperor Hui of Jin ( 259-307) was informed that his people were starving from a rice famine, he replied with the famous chinese version of let them eat cake: "why don't they eat meat porridge?"
p8NPO TIL of the Guano Islands Act of 1856, authorizing US naval forces to annex islands for the purpose of collecting bird poop
j66pN TIL that apples can get sunburned and this is what it looks like