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TIL the official state sport of Maryland is jousting
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TIL that Stan Lee proposed to his wife of 69 years after two weeks of dating. She was already married and filed for a quick divorce in Nevada an hour before being married to Stan. The judge who granted the divorce was the same one who performed the marriage ceremony.
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TIL Vindaloo curry is based on the Portuguese dish carne de vinha d'alhos (meat marinated with garlic and wine).
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TIL that Richard Nixon could play the saxophone, clarinet, accordion and violin without knowing how to read music.
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TIL that the actor that played gimli (as a dwarf beeing one of the smallest members of the fellowship) in the lotr trilogy was actually the tallest member of the fellowship (beeing 6’ 1")
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TIL that a 14 year old black boy was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955.