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Today I Learned That London Has A Fairly Large Population Of Wild Parrots That No-One Knows The Origin Of

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PJmZ TIL That with 324 wins, 7 no-hitters, and 5,714 strikeouts, Nolan Ryan never won a Cy Young award.
KY0MR TIL The peach crayon color used to be called Flesh until 1962
KOyB4 TIL that the saying "when one door closes, another opens" is an Alexander Graham Bell quote, which he then followed by saying "but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
ANgW4 TIL in 1971, after the 2nd lunar EVA of Apollo 15, Commander Dave Scott found his NASA-issued watch had broken. He switched it with a prototype watch that he had been given as a back up. The only personally owned watch used on the moon's surface, it was auctioned in 2015 for $1.6 million.
ADx8n TIL: Starbucks lost a case against a Pakistani man who owned a rip off cafe named Sattar Buksh. with a similar logo. Starbucks filed a lawsuit against the cafe owner. Turned out Starbucks lost the case because the owner name was Sattar Buksh and the logo actually included his face.