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TIL that Yogi Berra was ejected from a game after umps ruled that a ball hit by his player hit the concrete wall, which was in play, and not the plywood wall, which would be a home run. Yogi exclaimed, “Anyone who can’t hear the difference between wood and concrete must be blind.”

VMWrZ TIL there is a sexual orientation called "objectum sexuality" (OS) where individuals experience emotional, romantic, and/or sexual feelings towards inanimate objects. OS individuals also possess significantly higher rates of diagnosed autism and synaesthesia
DQ5Pg TIL: Humans with Aphakia have the ability to see ultraviolet light.
lRE7 TIL that when a Holocaust denial group offered $50,000 dollars to “prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz,” a camp survivor, Mel Mermelstein sent them definitive proof. When they refused to pay, he sued them and was given $90,000 when the court noted, “It is simply a fact.”
5Y6j9 TIL There are no reports throughout history of any one finding buried treasure, pirate or not. "In reality, pirates burying treasure was rare. Buried treasure is a literary trope commonly associated with depictions of pirates, criminals, and Old West outlaws. "
Y7dDW TIL an advertising agency faked a movement to support book burning in order to create animosity against them and so subsequently save a local public library that was facing closure due to budget cuts. People rallied against the 'book burners' and voted to save the library.