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TIL Pro wrestler Randy Savage played minor league baseball.

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MeWG0 TIL That the Scaly Foot Gastropod lives in hydrothermal vents up to 750°F, doesn't eat food, and is the only living creature that encorporates iron into its skeleton.
69vPW TIL that people with synesthesia, a neurological phenomenon where stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second pathway, often possess unique and vivid perceptions of the world. For example, the letter "A" might consistently appear as red.
QJmxE TIL the US made Schoolhouse Rock-like cartoons called The Metric Marvels in 1978 to prepare the country to switch to the metric system
ZvLv TIL Shakespeare’s plays were so popular that pirated copies were made. Reporters would attend a performance and quickly write down the play’s entire text in shorthand as it was spoken. The pirated copies often had errors due to the reporters making mistakes while writing.
WkopN TIL of Conrad Veidt, the man who played the villain in Casablanca, who gave up a career as one of the highest-paid actors in Germany in '33. When forced to declare his race for the government he wrote "Juden" despite not being Jewish, because his wife was and he wouldn't renounce her.