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TIL Michael Chiklis Went Bald at Age 20 Because Of A Mishap With Theater Makeup

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R7MJ8 TIL of Gino Bartali, a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in WWII Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.
p8OBe TIL that in 1948, the overpopulation of beavers were causing problems in Idaho, so they dropped 76 beavers out of airplanes with parachutes to try to relocate the populations.
Eg6Rp TIL in 1976 Cleveland became the bombing capitol of America due to organized crime members bombing each other
1QQD TIL Louis Armstrong played the trumpet so much that it caused callus tissue on his lips. He would remove it himself with a razor blade.
0V7M TIL that the heated water in the barrel of the Vickers machine gun was sometimes used to make tea for British soldiers during World War I.