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TIL The average lifespan of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches ⚾️

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JYpZ4 TIL Edward de Vere (17th Earl of Oxford) did not go into voluntary exile for farting while bowing to the Queen - as commonly reported. He was exiled from court for impregnating one of the Queen's maid's of honour.
WxjX TIL in 1975, a 15-year-old girl was beaten to death, with the primary suspects in the murder being Kennedy-Cousins Thomas and Michael Skakel. Although Michael Skakel was overheard in 1978 stating, “I’m going to get away with murder. I’m a Kennedy”, it was not until 2002 that he was convicted.
GYdYQ TIL: US President Ronald Reagan was the first to pardon a Thanksgiving turkey. He did it as a way to distract from a political scandal.
4Eo6 TIL The Mythbusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, don’t like each other
KYV8R Today I learned that once, while Elton John was visiting Groucho Marx, Marx playfully pretended to shoot John by pointing his fingers at him like a pistol, and John replied, "Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player!" John later used this quote as the title of one of his albums.