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TIL John Coltrane is recognised as a saint in the African Orthodox Church

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Z8MdB TIL that the character Mark from Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" is named after Matt Damon, who Tommy believed was named Mark Damon
9YLKm TIL Rocky Marciano, the legendary boxer, had a fear of being “broke” and was obsessed with cash. He hid cash in various places, and his accountant couldn’t convince him of the concept of ‘checks’. Rocky gave away checks, sometimes as much as $50,000. He once traded a $5,000 check for $2,500 cash.
lodL1 TIL researches at Uni. of Oklahoma injected almost 300 MG of LSD into a male Indian elephant in 1967. Within 5 minutes he collapsed; slightly under two hours later he was dead.
rk6x TIL America designed a grenade the weight and size of a baseball because they believed young American troops should be able to throw them.
eQmD TIL that 90% of people with albinism in Africa, die by the age of 40 due to persecution.