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TIL Basketball player Kevin McHale played for the Celtics on the '87 playoffs with a broken foot

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xZr1 TIL that U.S. President Thomas Jefferson was also: a lawyer, an architect, president of the American Philosophical Society, a speaker of 5 languages, founder of the Univ. of VA., inventor of the swivel chair, and author to what is considered the most important American book published before 1800.
ANYmg TIL the entire Oregon coast is public land
YJvP TIL that the phrase “rule of thumb” refers to estimating measurements with one’s thumb and has nothing to do with the thickness of a stick for beating one’s wife
6E4XZ TIL of Paint Drying, a 10 hour movie about paint drying on a wall. Created as a protest to force British Board of Film Classification watch all 10 hours to rate the movie
j6JKR TIL that the prestige in holding the Blue Riband for the highest average speed in crossing the Atlantic, was such that the British government gave the shipping firm Cunard a £2.5 million loan to help take the title back from Germany, which Cunard did.