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TIL that Buddy Holly proposed marriage to his girlfriend on their first date. She said yes.

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a8kJb TIL McDonald's used to have a playground structure widely known as the Big Mac Climber
d8RjZ TIL there is a famous Irish Dolphin called “Fungie the Dingle Dolphin” who has been seeking human contact since 1983 which is rare for wild Dolphins. He also possesses an extremely strange diet for a dolphin, consisting primarily of garfish and is the only known Dolphin to eat them
7815b TIL that in the 1940s Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar drove 200 miles round trip each week to teach a class in the Uni of Chicago. One day he insisted on driving to teach the class despite a heavy snowstorm. He ended up teaching a class of only two that day, both of whom went on to win a Nobel Prize.
ZMgp TIL a species of jellyfish, has developed a way to change itself from an adult back to the polyp stage (infant), and back and forth, which in effect allows it to live forever.
1aZO TIL on September 21, 1997, a crew member aboard the USS Yorktown accidentally divided by zero and caused a systems failure that stopped the propulsion of the ship.