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TIL Organic foods advocate J.I. Rodale died on live TV minutes after bragging he’d live to be 100.

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gMlLA TIL that Target has their own forensics lab which is so good that police departments routinely ask them for help.
b6gME TIL Michael Jordan still holds the record for worst score in a three point contest; making only 5 out of 30 shots in 1990.
ADng7 TIL Hazel Scott played two pianos at the same time with ease. And also, she was the first person of color to get her own national TV show. She will always be remembered for her music and breaking down racial barriers.
e0Ga6 TIL Grant & Lee met again in 1869, 4 years after the American Civil War at the White House when Grant was President of the U.S. and Lee president of Washington University. Grant cracked a joke at Lee about railroads but Lee refused to smile. Their meeting was brief, lasting 15 minutes.
Oo8pa TIL Xerxes built two pontoon bridges over the Dardanelles strait to move his troops into Macedonia. When a storm destroyed the bridges, Xerxes had the builders beheaded and sent his army to whip, yell at, and brand the waters. The bridges were never rebuilt. Xerxes later lost the war with Macedonia.