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TIL of the Fieschi Letter from 1327, which claims that King Edward II was not murdered as always assumed but changed clothes with a servant, killed the gate-keeper where he was imprisoned and escaped to exile in Europe. The letter was rediscovered 500 years later.

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ljOK TIL former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner once caught and detained a 17 year old named Ray Negron spraying graffiti on Yankee stadium. As a punishment, he made him the team’s batboy. Negron worked his way up the baseball ladder and went on to become a Yankees executive and a best selling author.
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