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TIL Mookie Betts, an MLB all-star outfielder for the Dodgers, once bowled a perfect ‘300’ in a professional bowling competition

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jg7R TIL when John F. Kennedy met Joseph Luns, the former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy asked for his hobbies and he answered: “I fok horses”, Kennedy, struck with surprise responded: “Pardon?”, Luns replied: “Yes, paarden!”. ‘Fokken’ means 'to breed’, and 'horses’ means 'paarden’ in Dutch
16O44 TIL Krakatoa’s 1883 eruption was so powerful it was heard 3,000 miles away and changed global weather patterns”
ALax TIL the Futurama episode “Jurassic Bark” was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for “Outstanding Animated Program” and lost…to an episode of the Simpsons.
OGkP6 TIL that the assassination of President WilliamMcKinley by Leon Czolgosz in 1901 led to the formation of modern-day Secret Service and also the FBI. In addition, after he was executed by electric chair a month after his trial Czolgosz's coffin was covered in acid so his body would dissolve.
O88X TIL Saved By the Bell executive producer Peter Engel used to have threesomes with Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in his office