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TIL Pro wrestler Randy Savage played minor league baseball.

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aw7mA TIL "who's cutting onions in here" goes back at least as far as Shakespeare. In All's Well That Ends Well, the old lord Lafeu explains his emotion during the final scene by saying "Mine eyes smell onions"
a8Lk9 TIL about Misokinesia the hatred of fidgeting
LQdnV TIL some churches have a hagioscope (or squint), a hole in a wall which allowed segregated worshippers to view the altar, one London church had to admonish nuns who got into the habit of kissing ‘secular persons’ via the squint
vP14x TIL about Thomas Midgley, considered the Most Harmful Inventor in History who invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Both of these inventions caused a great magnitude of damage to both human and planetary health.
JvK8 TIL that Chinese authorities have created the world’s first mobile phone walking lane for pedestrians addicted to texting.