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Til: Gaylord Perry, a Major League Baseball played with the giants for 7 years and never hit a home run. The giants manager joked with reporters saying, “They’ll put a man on the moon before Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, Gaylord Perry hit a home run

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xyJ7 TIL a man robbed a bank by pretending to be a public health official and giving a fatal dose of cyanide to all 16 people in the bank under the pretense of a routine dysentery innoculation
GmPE TIL: President Ford was saved from assassination by a ‘closeted’ solider who the press outed as gay. Despite this being controversial in 1975, Ford publicly thanked the soldier who was estranged from his parents until Ford so publicly supported him.
aw8Y9 TIL of the Leakey family, a British extended family consisting of several high-ranking military officials, "Black Rod", two VC winners, and notable archaeologists and scientists.
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5V7nP TIL the area around Palm Springs, California, one of the hottest, driest places on earth, is sitting on over 100 years worth of water even if they did not receive another drop from any other source. It's 13,000 feet deep and has enough to supply 83 million people a year, yet only 436,000 live there.