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TIL President Reagan was shot over the shooters infatuation with Jodi Foster and the hope she would be impressed by his actions. Jodi loves rainbows.

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woo7 TIL that during World War 2, US troops would use the word “lollapalooza” to root out Japanese spies. Anyone who pronounced the first two syllables as “rorra” was gunned down on sight.
4Ge6 TIL Final Fantasy was not named before the publisher, Square, goes bankrupt. Sakaguchi wanted to name it Fighting Fantasy but the name clashed with another title. Wanting to retain the abbreviation FF, as it sounds pleasing to the Japanese pronounced as “efu efu,” he named it Final Fantasy instead.
WkbYL TIL of Julius Lothar Meyer who was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneers in developing the first periodic table of chemical elements. Both Mendeleev and Meyer worked with Robert Bunsen. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his life simply as Lothar Meyer.
Av74 TIL that 14th US President Franklin Pierce recited his 3,319-word inaugural address from memory, without the aid of notes.
wLm8W TIL that even though Sammy Sosa is the only player in MLB history to hit 60 home runs in a season 3 times, he didn't lead the league in home runs in any of those 3 seasons.