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TIL: Because Nintendo owns the Seatle Mariners, there is a 3DS app that allows you to order food direct to your seat

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ol8W TIL A biker gang provides protection to sexually abused/abused children, that are too scared or hurt from the abuse, they’ve helped many kids and most gain the confidence to testify in court. They are all volunteers and put up to 20 hours a week in it.
LQDrm TIL about the fall of Alan Magee. A B-17 ball turret gunner in World War II, Magee fell more than 20,000 feet without a parachute when his plane was destroyed by flak. He smashed through the roof of a French railroad station, survived, and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp.
vPLpx TIL that the 1962 space-age pop album Latin-esque was recorded with halves of the orchestra in a different studio, separated by almost a city block. It was done to enhance the album's stereo effect, to achieve an exaggerated spatial image.
JjRk TIL Chef Boiardi (Chef Boyardee) catered President Woodrow Wilson’s wedding reception, and then during WWII was awarded the Order of Lenin for helping to feed Russian soldiers.
X0DLr TIL about the Higgs boson, also known as 'the God particle', an elementary particle which is responsible for granting other particles their mass. Its existence was first proposed in the 1960's, but evidence for the particle would only be found in 2012, by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider.