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TIL Ray Bradbury was so poor growing up that he borrowed the suit with a bullet hole his uncle was murdered in for his high school graduation ceremony.

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QXDE TIL in WW2 a US Captain founded a lighthearted drinking group known as the Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles. On induction a member must reply to the question “Are you a turtle?” with “You bet your sweet ass I am” as all members are assumed to own a diabetic donkey.
epKBJ TIL that wiping one's nose & treating it's underlying cause of runnyness (allergy, pathogen, etc) is much more effective and safer for the nasal passages than blowing it
LkE8V TIL former NBA player, Chris Webber, has an extensive collection of African American artifacts he began collecting his rookie year. It grew so large that it is housed in the Sacramento Public Library’s Archive Vault. It includes signed docs and letters from Malcolm X, MLK, and Frederick Douglass.
EgVW7 TIL of the Ben Franklin Effect, "a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them". The opposite is also true, people come to dislike others to whom they have done wrong
pYaxN TIL that the United States Postal Service doesn’t own or operate any aircraft. Instead, they contract with companies like FedEx and UPS to help transport mail and packages