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TIL George HW Bush shaved his head in support of a member of his security teams child in 2013 at 89

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Ze4R TIL; The inventor of the baseball glove, Canadian Arthur Irwin, created the glove after breaking two fingers on his left hand. When he died, it was discovered that he had two families unbeknownst to each other. One in Boston and the other in New York
yV8Ea TIL that Technicolor movies were filmed on three rolls of film with the image split using a prism into three color images. Each film roll was then developed and dyed a complimentary primary color and then the three rolls were laminated together to create a full color roll of film
E1nGo TIL Genghis Khan had 500 wives
QNMO9 TIL many commonly used statistical methods, such as Student's t-test, were invented by the head brewer at Guiness Brewery for quality control
GYko1 TIL of independent Scotland's only attempt to form a colony in the New World. Their failure to establish a New Caledonia in Panama led to financial ruin and eventual union with England, creating the UK in 1707.