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TIL the 1922 World Series featured two teams that shared a home stadium, brothers playing against each other, and the last tie in World Series history

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6ELEY TIL that in 1720 a ship full of precious goods and sick people arrived in Marseille/France. In spite of clear signs, greedy merchands put pressure an the authorities to shorten the quarantine and not to burn the freight. More than 100.000 people died because of pestilence in the next two years.
6bDW TIL Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician, successfully proved the Poincaré conjecture (one of the seven Millennium problems) in papers made available in 2002 and 2003. When his work survived review, he was offered a Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Millennium Prize, both of which he turned down.
v1nXB TIL that during the Men's Marathon at the 1904 Olympics, competitor Fred Lorz, after suffering from a cramp, hitched a ride in a car. After the car broke down after driving for 19 miles, Fred re-entered the race and jogged to the finish line, winning the marathon.
rGYd TIL Billionaire cocaine smuggler Sal Magluda won 3 National Powerboat Championships and frequently appeared on TV despite being a fugitive; nobody noticed for 6 years
GYAX1 Wagyu's fat has a melting point lower than the average human body temperature, it literally melts in your mouth.