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TIL Joe Mauer only struck out once in four years of high school baseball.

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e08vE TIL Dogs know what time it is based off of scent
0wnkN TIL the 1979 film Caligula, known for its explicit content, is the only feature film produced by the men's magazine Penthouse, hiring Penthouse Pets as extras in unsimulated sex scenes. A critical failure upon release, it is one of the few films critic Roger Ebert walked out of.
klYB TIL before starting Wendy’s, Dave Thomas worked under Colonel Sanders at KFC and even invented their widely used KFC chicken bucket
X1N6 TIL: Not all snow flakes are symmetrical: “Despite what Wilson Bentley’s old photographs would have us believe, most snowflakes are not symmetrical. Wilson Bentley only photographed the pretty ones. In fact, 99% of snow flakes are downright ugly
xVA95 TIL the US military's Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can project speech narrowly enough to be heard by a single person 300m away. American soldiers in Iraq used the device to speak directly to specific insurgents, claiming to be the voice of God and ordering their surrender