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TIL Babe Ruth during his playing career never wore the Yankees home jersey with the interlocking NY (same as today). That was introduced in 1936 when Ruth was already retired. As a player he only wore the plain pinstripes at home.

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7rXnZ TIL the rocket in Jules Verne’s 1865 story From the Earth to the Moon launched from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean because of Verne’s calculations. In 1969, Apollo 11 took off from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
n7Dr TIL Thinking things like “I could drive straight into oncoming traffic and kill us all” or “If I drop this baby she would certainly die” out of the blue is actually quite normal- it’s called ‘Intrusive Thoughts’
pNaQ TIL that when the Nazis closed down the Polish universities and executed professors, surviving academics set up illegal ‘underground universities.’ One of those educated by an underground university was future Pope John Paul II
ZpY6v TIL Louis Braille faced resistance towards and doubts about his writing system for the blind, called Braille. His school burned books he and his classmates had transcribed into Braille, since the school thought that the effectiveness of Braille was a threat to their revenue.
W6BL TIL that in 2001, a panel of wine experts gave one of the lowest possible scores to an average-priced Bordeaux that was served in a cheap bottle. When it was served in an expensive bottle, it received one of the highest possible scores.