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TIL the namesake for the Marshall Tucker Band is alive and lives in South Carolina. Marshall Tucker, who is 95 & blind, is a retired piano tuner.

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ZpP4B TIL in 1976 groundskeeper Richard Arndt caught Hank Aaron's 755th home run ball & tried to return it to Aaron but was told he's unavailable. The next day the Brewers fired Arndt for stealing team property (the ball) & deducted $5 from his final paycheck. In 1999, he sold it at auction for $625,000.
1OGV TIL that Google hires a flock of 200 goats regularly to chew away the grass in their lawns rather than using land-mowers.
b66YE TIL when a female porcupine is ready to mate she climbs a tree and vocalizes loudly like a cat. This mating call attracts the males, which then fight brutally with each other. It's not unusual to see a winning, mating male with a hundred or so quills of rival males' tails stuck in his face.
NRvJ TIL that the clay that the London Underground’s deep level lines were tunnelled through has reached heat saturation, and parts of the Underground that were 14°C in the 1900s can reach 30°C today.
6oxY TIL most road vehicles are slightly cross castered and cambered so in the event of steering loss, the vehicle will want to go to the shoulder instead of oncoming traffic