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TIL that following his death the Boston Red Sox player Ted Williams head was cryogenically frozen.

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mDjo TIL that Jerry Maren, a 96-year-old dwarf, is the only Munchkin cast member from The Wizard of Oz still alive. He was one of the three members of the Lollipop Guild. Here he is singing the Lollipop Guild song in 2013.
pEjb TIL that conditions seemed so bleak in America during the Great Depression that people in Cameroon sent $3.77 to New York for food relief
kOgGm TIL Late piano virtuoso Glenn Gould spent only 10% of his time at the keyboard in the studio and the rest working on the recordings itself by editing, splicing and supervising the record to achieve the best, absolute and note-perfect version of his playing.
xVMdg TIL The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez once spoke for 8 hours straight on his own Talk Show
x6OZ1 TIL the city of Tyre was on an island in antiquity, but has since become contiguous to the mainland. The causeway that Alexander the Great built to conquer it in 332 BCE resulted in silt depositions that eventually formed a peninsula.