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TIL That there are (currently) more #1 MLB draft picks serving time in a correctional institution, than there are in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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0poR TIL that “Rosie The Riveter” the woman that appeared in the WWII We Can Do It propaganda posters quit her job after only two weeks as a welder because it was too dangerous.
nODB TIL That when Michael Douglas was treated with throat cancer, his doctor actually suggested that too much oral sex on women may be the reason for his condition.
b9eA4 TIL that in trial accusing Judas Priest of subliminal messages in their songs that made two young men commit suicide, the band argued that if you play speech backwards some of it will seem to make sense, so they played their album backwards and heard ‘Give me a peppermint’ and ‘Help me keep a job’
QgxX TIL there is an island which is so densely populated by poisonous snakes the Brazilian Navy has quarantined it and a biologist once said that when on the island you are “never more than three feet from death.” Oh, and it’s called “Snake Island.”
wo66o TIL ecologists once thought Beaver dam-building was an amazing feat of planning, indicative of the high intellect. This was tested when a recording of running water was played in a field near a beaver pond. Although on dry land, the beaver covered the tape player with branches and mud.