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TIL Maria von Trapp at age 15 was offered a job as an umpire for a tennis tournament. She took the job despite never having played tennis and not knowing what an umpire was.

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6007 TIL not long after John Lennon received his first guitar, his aunt Mimi (his guardian at the time) told him, “The guitar’s all very well, John, but you’ll never make a living out of it.” Three years later, The Beatles formed.
PlgO TIL that an American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.
ANavl TIL that the “SEGA” jingle at the beginning of Sonic the Hedgehog took up ~ 1/8th of the entire game’s storage size on the cartridge!
DYwP TIL that Truman, before becoming US President in 1945 advocated arming Germany if the Soviet Union was in a position to win
V6Bm TIL: North Korea claims to have sunk the heavy cruiser USS Baltimore and even preserved the ship that “sunk it” in a museum. The USS Baltimore was never deployed to Korea and was scrapped in 1972.