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TIL that My Chemical Romance was created after lead singer Gerard Way witnessed the 9/11 attacks first hand.

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6EAal TIL over a hundred years ago, virtually every American city had public streetcars that people took to work. That includes cities we don't think of as hubs for mass transit today, like Atlanta, Raleigh, and Los Angeles. Today, just 5 percent of U.S. workers commute via via public transit.
X0gbR TIL Celtics GM Red Auerbach planned to draft Len Bias for three years, only for Len to die two days after being drafted after snorting cocaine for 3-4 hours in his dorm room after coming home from a college party
go5y TIL Joss Whedon was the reason Toy Story was greenlit…after he took 4 months to rewrite the entire script (scroll to part II)
Wk4DL Til: The "X" in Xbox game console refers to relying on the directx api and was choosen by the directx team at microsoft
YpJKB TIL Lizzy Murphy known as "The Queen of Baseball",was the first woman to play professional baseball, competing with male athletes in 1922. She played baseball for 17 yrs as a first baseman; she also played on several all-star teams and was the first person of either sex to play on both AL & NL teams