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TIL that Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, the executioner from the famous Vietnam War photo, opened a pizza joint in Virginia after the war

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Lj8v TIL that the “Kentucky meat shower” was an incident in 1876 where flakes of red meat (identified as lung tissue from horse or human infant) fell from the sky for several minutes. Theories include vulture vomit or a type of bacteria called nostoc.
1beO TIL baseball catcher Dave Bresnahan threw a potato to deceive a baserunner into being tagged by the ball. The league banned him but fan-support forced the club to retire his number. At his retirement ceremony he said “Gehrig played 2130 games & hit 340; all I had to do was bat .140 & throw a potato”
d8bVj TIL: The human eye may have evolved a distinct color contrast to make it easier to follow ones gaze. This evolution helped facilitate communication and cooperation among members of a social group.
4XXYJ TIL the first e-commerce was a drugs deal in the early 1970s
R7Q4j TIL about the "Pilgrim Army", a group of 15000 crusaders who were blown off course to the holy land and made to stop in Portugal where the King convinced them to help defeat the Moors in return for anything they could plunder, the majority elected to retire in Lisbon afterward.