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TIL of Juliet Prowse, who was engaged to Frank Sinatra, had an affair with Elvis, and was the first ever guest on The Muppet Show

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YlkP TIL pirates wore gold earings so if they were ever washed up on sea,the earings would pay for their funeral.
Ypg6d TIL that several Jews fled Germany to Shanghai before the outbreak of the war as it was the only city in the world you could legally land without a visa
69yBX TIL that if a glass became literally half-empty, with water on top and vacuum beneath, it would explode, and crash into the ceiling.
ORoL TIL that Norman Mineta’s baseball bat was confiscated when he was sent to a Japanese American internment camp as a boy. As a Congressman, he was sent a $1500 bat, which he had to send back, as it exceeded a price limit on gifts. He was quoted as saying, “The damn government’s taken my bat again.”
kED5 TIL ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, the most energetic particles known to humans, all come from the same region of the universe and are caused by an physical process of unknown origin. The most powerful cosmic ray ever recorded carried energy of 300 billion billion eV.