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TIL Pro wrestler Randy Savage played minor league baseball.

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mbWY TIL that until World War II most US groceries, dry cleaners, drugstores, and department stores offered home delivery service. War-related labor shortages, and gas/tire rationing, caused most to stop; businesses found, however, that sales increased when customers had to buy in person.
e8X5 TIL the sunken wreck of a long-lost Second World War submarine, thought to contain the bodies of 71 servicemen sealed inside its airtight chambers, has been found by divers off the coast of Sardinia
Oo6EY TIL of the "Kappa". A Japanese mythical creature that will assault humans and steal a mythical organ from the victim's anus.
nbY9 TIL that ‘The Fuller Cut’ barbershop in Michigan, offers $2 off the price of a haircut for children, if they read to the barber while receiving the haircut, hoping to increase the literacy rate in the city, especially among the poorer families.
9YQN6 TIL of Eric Lomax, a British ex-POW who was captured in 1942 by Japanese forces. Many years after the war, he tracked down the Japanese man who had tortured him, and forgave him.