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TIL Jeffrey Hunter, the original Captain Christopher Pike, died in 1969 never knowing how popular Star Trek would become and how iconic he would be.

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9Y9PB TIL Johnny Cash was banned for life from the Grand Old Opry for smashing the stage lights with a microphone stand (while battling with drug and alcohol abuse) in 1965. The ban was later lifted and he continued to perform at the auditorium until his death in 2003.
Wkk0B TIL in the 19th century Americans loved to eat eels so much that over fishing lead to a decline in supply and the public lost its taste for eel.
nw8P TIL Lewis Lee Millett deserted the US Army when he thought they would not enter WW2 and joined the Canadian Army to fight. After the US Army joined WW2 he transferred back. In the Korean war he would be awarded the Medal Of Honor for leading the last major bayonet charge in American history.
l70e7 TIL Tarantulas can swim and some can even dive in order to catch fish!
rloo TIL “Jim Wilson” is the American Airlines code for coffin or cadaver shipments