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TIL A baseball game isn't over til it's over, even if a team is down 0-9 it's still possible for them to come back and win.

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OoXgX TIL about "Benjaman Kyle": the only person ever placed on the FBI's Missing Persons page, even though his location was known. Kyle was found naked and injured in 2004 next to a Burger King dumpster in Georgia—and claimed to suffer from severe amnesia. His identity was eventually discovered in 2015.
aw88N TIL that The Grinch was the biggest box-office hit of 2000.
8e878 TIL, in 1878, firemen from all-black Engine Co 21 always seemed to arrive first at fires soon after discovering that sliding down a long pole between floors saved them time over using stairs. Other stations quickly adopted the fire pole which became standard in the city and eventually worldwide.
OGar1 TIL of Doctor Yellow, the name for the two diagnostic bullet trains on Japan's Shinkansen. They test the tracks at 270 kph. Seeing one of these rare trains is considered a sign of good luck
dgL9 TIL that 2500 BED (banana equivalent dose) is recognized as the maximum permitted radiation leakage for a nuclear power plant. The equivalent radiation from eating 2500 bananas. Quite literally a banana for scale.