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TIL: Some consider the letter 'R' a vowel

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7rYwZ TIL that Norman Mineta’s baseball bat was confiscated when he was sent to a Japanese American internment camp as a boy. As a Congressman, he was sent a $1500 bat, which he had to send back, as it exceeded a price limit on gifts. He was quoted as saying, “The damn government’s taken my bat again.”
b9dk7 TIL The first Soviet dog to return from space alive "Strelka" later had puppies. Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev gifted one of the puppies to JFK's daughter Caroline.
ANP1l TIL about “follies”: 18th-19th century buildings constructed as displays of extravagant wealth, typically with no practical purpose
OoV1L TIL The entire world was saved from Nuclear obliteration by one Russian lieutenant colonel named Stanislav Petrov in 1983 by trusting his gut and not firing retaliatory nuclear strikes after a satellite had a false positive that America was sending 4 nukes their way.
1XPO TIL James Harrison aka The Man With the Golden Arm started donating blood regularly after age 18 and scientists found that his blood contains Rh (D) immune globulin or anti-D, which helps prevent fetuses who have Rhesus Disease. He has made over 1000 blood donations and saved 2,000,000 babies.