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TIL There was a minor league baseball player named “Wonderful Terrific Monds III”

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x6PDB TIL about the women-are-wonderful effect which is the phenomenon found in psychological and sociological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with women when compared to men
V9nD TIL That since 1825, every bald Russian president has succeeded a hairy one and vice versa.
BgXXe TIL about Charles Daniels, a little-known photographer who shot tens of thousands of pictures of famous rock stars during the 1960s and 70s, and has been sitting on "roughly 3,200 rolls of undeveloped film".
mxkxP TIL about the COLFAX, LOUISIANA, MASSACRE (1873). Approximately 150 Black men were murdered by white men with guns and cannons for trying to freely assemble at a courthouse.
J9Ev TIL the Chambarakat Dam in Mosul, Iraq is listed as the most dangerous dam in the world due to being built on an unstable base of gypsum (the same mineral used in drywall). If it should fail, it would ultimately put Baghdad under 15 ft of water with a death toll of 500,000.