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TIL: Saying “Ahi tuna” is redundant. The Hawaiian word “Ahi” means yellowfin tuna.

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Py8Z TIL JFK’s sister Rosemary Kennedy, was born mentally disabled because during her birth, the doctor was not immediately available and the nurse ordered Rose Kennedy to keep her legs closed, forcing the baby’s head to stay in the birth canal for two hours…resulting in a harmful loss of oxygen.
rNM4x TIL that Robert De Niro originally auditioned for the role of Sonny in The Godfather, but lost the part to James Caan. De Niro later went on to win an Oscar for playing young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II.
oRyYK TIL: That a man named Charles Grady once sued the Doritos company claiming that his throat had been damaged while eating Doritos. Grady attempted to admit into evidence a study by a former chemistry professor that calculated how best to safely swallow the chips, but it was subsequently rejected.
Oo61a TIL in 1957 a governor used the national guard to block black students entering a desegregated school. Elizabeth Eckford mistakenly arrived on her own and was hounded by an angry mob. The 101st airborne was summoned by the president who protected her and 8 other black students while at school.
P47E TIL Nikola Tesla was born during a fierce lightning storm. According to family legend, midway through the birth, the midwife wrung her hands and declared the lightning a bad omen. This child will be a child of darkness, she said, to which his mother replied: “No. He will be a child of light.”