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TIL that a baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers in 1974 featured unlimited beer for ten cents a cup. This led to an angry, drunken mob of Indians fans attacking the Rangers with knives, chains and folding chairs, forcing both teams to fight them off with baseball bats.

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