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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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LQE8v TIL the average elephant poops 220 pounds (100 kg) a day.
epPND TIL about Alexandre Vattemare, he was a French ventriloquist. He trained as a surgeon, but was refused a diploma after making cadavers seem to speak during surgical exercises
LQLOZ TIL the shape created by bending a rod is called an "elastica curve"
jNZmN TIL when pirate Jean Lafitte learned that a $500 bounty had been placed on his head by the Governor of Louisiana, he responded by placing a $5000 bounty on the Governor's head.
XEkkD TIL Costa Rica is the first country to start a ban on all single-use plastics, scheduled to be complete by 2021