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TIL Chevy Chase avoided the draft by falsely claiming he was homosexual.

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xWgb TIL that when President George Washington died, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ordered ten days of mourning in France.
kJgN7 TIL $157K worth of stolen Magic: the Gathering and Dungeon & Dragons gaming cards were recovered after they were turned in by the party who bought them from the thieves for $4K. The cards had been stolen at Gen Con 2023 when 2 men simply walked out with a pallet that had 115 boxes of the cards on it
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DQgEj TIL Eddie Gaedel, the shortest player in MLB history, was killed when he was only 36. Not even his owner Bill Veeck attended his funeral. The only MLB person to attend was Bob Cain, who was the pitcher for Gaedel's only plate appearance.