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TIL Frank Sinatra did not serve in World War II because he was classified 4-F, but also that doctors believed that he was “neurotic” and “not acceptable material from a psychiatric standpoint”.

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LPPd TIL The worst Star Trek Next Generation episode is widely regarded to be “Shades of Gray”. It was a previous clip show created due to a lack of funds left over from other episodes during the second season and the writer, Maurice Hurley, refers to it as a “piece of shit”.
W7dX TIL that Redbox is trying to replace Ticketmaster by offering tickets for sale at Redbox with a 1$ fee.
BrZyL TIL Over-cooking hard boiled eggs will typically result in a thin green iron(II) sulfide coating on the yolk. This reaction occurs more rapidly in older eggs as the whites are more alkaline.
YplMW TIL that a duel in Canada was resolved by having both participants say "sorry" to each other.
wJ51 TIL the Portuguese man o’ war is not a jellyfish, but a siphonophore, a colony of creatures that cannot live independently of one another.