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TIL Major League Baseball (MLB) grants a lifetime pass for free admission to MLB games for life to any player, manager, coach or umpire with at least eight years of MLB experience. MLB is the only major pro-sports league that has such a program.

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GYM5Q TIL that the Corinth Canal's construction was started in the first century but abandoned and completed only in 1893
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