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TIL A Japanese Baseball Team, the Hanshin Tigers, is Believed to be Cursed by the Ghost of Colonel Sanders

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eGAg TIL In WWII, German soldiers, high on a drug called Pervitin (crystal meth), would sprint tirelessly through the Ardennes at the onset of the war. Winston Churchill was dumbfounded at their performance. One German general even boasted that his men stayed awake for 17 straight days.
b6ML0 TIL Michael Crichton was 6'9" and felt socially isolated as a result.
o11r TIL Will Smith improvised all the lines in his monologue about his father on Fresh Prince. The emotional ending and the hug was not scripted and he thought the cameras had stopped rolling when he said “How come he don’t want me, man?” His dad had left him as a child.
BNZW TIL Hugh Hefner has roses delivered to Marilyn Monroe’s grave every day, and will be buried next to her. They never met.
b6Zw0 TIL an airline passenger forced an emergency landing when they refused to stop singing Whitney Houston’s song “I Will Always Love You”