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TIL a musical road was built to honor R. Lee Ermey, the "Gunny" known for Full Metal Jacket. Special grooves play "The Marines' Hymn" when driven over.

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694J8 TIL as of 1859 (documented in the Base Ball Player’s Pocket Companion) there were different rules for baseball, with the “New York” rules ultimately winning out over the “Massachusetts” rules.
WklMd TIL: Of the 23 stab wounds Julius Caesar received during his assassination, only one was actually fatal
a8EBA TIL that Paul Revere’s son turned his father’s silversmith business into a copper manufacturing company and it has been in business since 1801
lAj1 TIL that It’s A Wonderful Life was a box office flop that caused the sale of its production company. It only became popular after the copyright holders forgot to file for a renewal and TV stations could play it all day and night without paying for it.
oB16E TIL neutron star PSR J1748-2446 is the fastest spinning celestial object in the universe. The star rotates 716 times every second, so its equator moves at about 25% the speed of light. It is also 50 trillion times the density of lead and has a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than the Sun’s.