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TIL Charlie Sheen once bought 2,615 tickets to a major league baseball game to improve his chances of catching a home run ball..

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LkyoV TIL that Joshua Norton, most famous for proclaiming himself "Emperor of the United States", once successfully stopped a race riot by standing between the rioters and Chinese labourers and repeatedly reciting the Lord's Prayer until they dispersed
neGN7 TIL that Nintendo can trace its origins back to the time of the Ottoman Empire and even ran brothels to supplement their trading card business.
4kO65 TIL that there are at least 5 species of shark living in the Thames estuary (which runs through London), and that one of those species is venomous.
68wm TIL that the oldest living animal was a type of deep sea clam that lived to be around 507 years old, but scientists accidentally killed it after opening the clam to check its age.
x6vJo TIL of the Holy Prepuce, a series of relics claiming to be Jesus's foreskin. At certain points in history, as many as 18 different supposed holy foreskins existed