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TIL The Baseball Manager Connie Mack was the longest-serving manager in Major League Baseball history and holds record for wins (3,731), losses (3,948). He also had a code of conduct for all his players that included not judging people on the basis of race or religion.

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0w5K5 TIL There are twice as many bathrooms as necessary as the Pentagon because planners had to design the it for black and white employees, including “white” and “colored” cafeterias. However, Pres. Roosevelt made Jim Crow laws illegal on Federal property prior to its opening and was never enforced.
epK5J TIL: The 6 Mitford sisters were a famous aristocratic family heavily involved in wildly different political scenes in the 1900s. Unity was a close friend of Hitler and visited him often, Diana married the leader of British Union of Fascists, Jessica joined the American Communist Party, etc.
a8EOZ TIL Katharine Hepburn- the person with the current record Academy Awards for acting (4)- never accepted the Oscars because she didn't believe in the concept, saying her work was its own prize. She did attend the ceremony, once, though, for other reasons.
d85DE TIL of HMS Electra, a British WW2 destroyer that saved the three survivors of HMS Hood, rescued 571 men off HMS Repulse at the Battle of Kuantan, and was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea in a lone suicide attack against the Japanese fleet, buying time for the crippled cruiser HMS Exeter to escape.
ZpkZG TIL George Reeves, the original 1950s Superman, died from a gunshot under bizarre circumstances.