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TIL that comedy actor Harold Ramis successfully dodged the Vietnam draft by taking meth immediately before his physical.

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dD0r7 TIL that the curveball was invented by a baseball player named Candy Cummings. He was also the first player ever to pitch two complete games in one day and later invented a device to safely couple railroad cars together.
e0JE6 TIL Senator from Massachusetts Edward Brooke the first African-American ever to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, spoke personally of his return from World War II and inability to provide a home of his choice for his new family because of his race.
R5jk6 TIL that Pope Francis released a rock album titled Wake Up! back in November 2015, reaching Number 4 in the US World Albums charts
D11AD TIL that Porphyria, a collection of diseases where symptoms include severe sun sensitivity, prominent canine teeth and peculiar behaviour, is thought to be the basis of the vampire legend
RX9Q TIL that NASA does not have an official protocol for what to do with an astronaut’s body if one were to die in space.