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TIL in 1973, New York Yankee pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson held a press conference to announce they had “traded lives.” This included the exchange of wives, children, and dogs.

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Brxer TIL of Hind al-Husseini, a Palestinian woman who rescued 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre. She converted her grandfather's mansion into an orphanage to house them, which became a school providing education to orphans and other children from Palestinian towns and villages.
7QdO TIL the word “Ewok” was never said in Star Wars.
a5vA TIL that when the Oxford College was founded, a grove of oaks had been planted to replace the beams in the dining hall. This plan had been passed down from one Forester to the next for over five hundred years saying “You don’t cut them oaks. Them’s for the College Hall.”
4X4Og TIL "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam", an underground cartoon short depicting Mickey Mouse being killed during the Vietnam War, was directed by Whitney Lee Savage, father of the Mythbuster Adam Savage.
N7kVe TIL The actor Masayori Oka who played Hiro Nakamuro on The TV show Heroes is the founder of Mobius Digital games, the developer of Outer Wilds