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TIL 40 years ago today , the Cleveland Indians staged Ten Cent Beer Night at their home stadium - and it ended with a riot, the Texas Rangers leaving the field armed with bats, and the Indians forfeiting the game.

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VMpBm TIL of Joseph Paul Jernigan, a murderer who agreed to donate his body to science prior to his execution in 1993. Jernigan’s body was encased, frozen, and cut into 1,851 slices. Images of those cuts are now used by medical students and radiologists as a human anatomy correlate for CT and MRI images.
8V0V TIL that the guy who wrote the US Pledge of Allegiance was a socialist, and wanted to include “equality and fraternity” but omitted them because the, “state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans.”
nkZP TIL the US House of Representatives was banned from editing Wikipedia after staff were caught making “persistent disruptive edits”, including naming former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard who eats Mexican babies.
9YPLm TIL that in the Rosenstrasse protests in 1943 during the middle of WWII, thousands of non-Jewish German women protested the deportation of their Jewish husbands to the concentration camps. The protests were successful, but it was the only mass protest in Nazi Germany against the deportation of Jews.
69y0l TIL of a Second World War Operation from the Aussies to send a small fishing boat and 13 men from Australia to occupied Singapore harbour to sink Japanese ships with mines. They sunk 3 ships and damaged 3 more. Was called Operation Jaywick! They even made it home!