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TIL that because of the suspended game rule, Juan Soto played and hit a home run in a game that took place before his Major League debut.

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xDd5 TIL words and phrases that are often misspoken or misspelled in a certain way (e.g. “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”) are called eggcorns, with the term itself being an eggcorn for the word “acorn”.
gr0aW TIL that the longest scientific name of any living or fossil organism is Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis, a bacterium isolated from soil collected at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, one of the longest place names in the world.
GY8BJ TIL earmuffs were invented in 1873 by a 15 year old farmer’s son with an elementary-level education who was tired of his ears getting cold while ice skating. It led to his hometown of Farmington, Maine being known as the “earmuff capital of the world”
Vex8 TIL that Lego tried to issue a Cease and Desist against the Magic Portal, the first stop-motion brick film. Luckily the creator, Lindsay Fleay, had secured a release from Lego Australia ahead of time, and Lego backed down.
LY10 TIL In the 1930s two psychologists adopted a baby chimp and tried to raise her as their child alongside their real infant son Donald to see if this caused the chimp to learn human behavior. They stopped the experiment after 9 months because their son actually started behaving more like a chimp.