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TIL: In 1999 the New York Mets head coach was ejected, but came back with a disguise for the rest of the game.

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VBnyG TIL that during WW2, the US also confined people with German and Italian ancestry (many who had US citizenship).
yVAMa TIL about Saitō Musashibō Benkei, a Japanese warrior reputed to have single-handedly killed over 300 trained soldiers while defending a bridge. His combat prowess in close quarters was so formidable that his enemies had to resort to killing him with a volley of arrows. He died upright.
gr9Z7 TIL that actor Hume Cronyn's father has an asteroid named after him (12050-Humecronyn)
JLVV TIL The man who wrote the documents of surrender signed by Confederate general Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse on this day in 1865 was a Seneca Indian named Ely Parker( born Hasanoanda). Upon meeting him Lee extended his hand and said, “I am glad to see one real American here.”
X0ZD6 TIL in 1931 a 15 year old went to a hospital in Chicago and was mistakenly given a transfusion of blood from a parrot because the physician misheard the doctor’s instruction to “use her parents’ blood.” The hospital staff frantically searched for a parrot and extracted its blood for injection