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TIL Less than a month before Lou Gehrig began his 2130 consecutive game streak, fellow Yankee Everett Scott's 1307 game streak ended when he was benched. Scott and Gehrig are third and second on the all time list.

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PYGaE TIL the Spanish Inquisition was devoid of its own budget, meaning it depended exclusively on the confiscation of the goods of the denounced. Due to this organization and possibility of abuse, someone wrote a letter to the king saying of the inquisitors "if they do not burn they do not eat".
4GpJ TIL in 1960 a Russian man with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires off the bomb saving everyone on board.
gbo9 TIL The Lululemon retail chain’s name came from the founder’s desire to watch Japanese people try to pronounce it
mxLXE TIL that the plural of hovercraft is hovercraft
LAEP TIL the richest man of Asia is called Ka-Shing