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TIL Babe Ruth returned to Boston for his last MLB season, playing for the Boston Braves (now the Atlanta Braves)

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J18rl Today I learned about Hyperthymesia, and that the actress Marilyn Henner from Taxi, is one of only 62 people in the world diagnosed with the rare condition. These people can remember virtually every detail of every day of their life starting from around the age of 10/11.
8aw9Z TIL the word "scotch" in hopscotch and butterscotch comes from the old French word "escocher", meaning to cut. In hopscotch we hop over "cuts" in the ground (it is an ancient game); butterscotch is a sheet of hard butter candy "scotched" into smaller pieces; it also led to the word "scratch"
5YrPD TIL about The Wrecking Crew, a group of Los Angeles studio musicians that played on hundreds of now-classic records in the 1960s and '70s. Sometimes, the only members of famous bands to appear on their own records were the vocalists; the Wrecking Crew played the music.
6ERv7 TIL that Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy, was once a crackhead and alcoholic.
16An8 TIL Women’s Peak Fertility is at 24. Women HIT THE WALL at 30. Women over 35 is called ELDERLY primigravid and over-35 pregnancy is called GERIATRIC. #SCIENCE