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TIL Joe Dimaggio won 9 World Series rings despite taking 3 years off in his prime due to WWII.

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dvNd TIL when the allied forces were signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the Canadian general blind in one eye mistakenly signed below his signature line, forcing every person after him to sign one space below. The Japanese found it unacceptable.
919Q TIL that the majority of computers do not measure time in hours or days but instead use “Unix Time” which is the exact number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970. The current Unix time is 1467042820.
e6Kk TIL: A “Blue Moon” does Not refer to the second full moon of a month, but the fourth full moon of a season. The common misconception became popular in the 1940s.
8a7Ra TIL that sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is currently using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Over 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
xg81 TIL the dinosaurs lived so long that the T-Rex was closer in time to seeing a Justin Bieber concert than seeing a live Stegosaurus.