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TIL Macho Man Randy Savage first began wrestling professionally while still playing pro baseball, moonlighting as a masked wrestler named "The Spider".

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agko TIL Anderson Cooper, soon after graduating college, forged a press pass and gained entrance to Myanmar to meet with students fighting the Burmese government. He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to Channel One, launching his journalism career.
J1lv1 TIL Sacramento, CA built a train station in the middle of a grass field, with a full parking lot inaccessible from any roads, and can only be reached via a 1/4 mile (0.4 km) trail.
OG1R TIL the statistic that 90% of guns seized in Mexico originated in the US is a myth. Only 12% are actually traced back to the US.
1aypD TIL Kenny Sailors, the inventor of the modern-day jump shot, is shockingly not in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
grWGW TIL that Vicks Vapor Inhaler, a nasal spray, is "L-methemphetamine", an isomer of the powerful psychoactive drug D-methemphetamine.