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TIL That the full lyrics of "Take me Out to the Ball Game" reveal the song was a feminist anthem about a woman wanting to go see a baseball game rather than go on a date to a show.

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wJjP TIL that according to Elon Musk, Top Gear completely faked their segment on Tesla and had in fact scripted the “breakdown” after which they pretended the car had to be pushed back to the garage before even receiving the car
mx9oE TIL that the 1841 Creole Mutiny -- the "most successful slave revolt in U.S. history" -- won the freedom of 128 people when the Creole, a ship carrying slaves from Virginia for sale in New Orleans, was taken over and sent to the Bahamas, straining U.S. relations with Great Britain.
oRPWK TIL even though Elijah Muhammad's many infidelities with his personal secretaries were used as a reason for Malcolm X's break from the Nation of Islam, Malcolm started his own affair with a secretary from his OAAU organization that lasted until his assassination.
PYKLG TIL During development of the game Wing Commander, a memory error would occur when exiting the game. They didn't have enough time to fix the error before shipping so they changed the error message to "Thanks for playing Wing Commander."
JBoQ TIL That a 50-year old Zookeeper in China Licked a 3-month old monkey’s anus to prevent it from choking to death on a peanut.