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TIL of baseball player Fred Merkle. In 1908 he made a base running mistake that ultimately cost his team the pennant. The play became known as “Merkle’s Boner”.

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Gno5 TIL that the second rainbow in a double rainbow is always inverted. (amazed I never saw this before.)
yVjyw TIL that Reynolds, the company that makes Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, once built and operated a deep sea submersible. Called the Aluminaut, it was the world's first aluminum submarine.
MeR5W TIL: Similar to Italian produced westerns being called Spaghetti Westerns, Australian produced westerns are called Meat Pie Westerns. "The Story Of the Kelly Gang", a 1906 film considered by some to be the world's first feature length film, is a Meat Pie Western.
LQWg9 TIL that rickrolling may lead to a fraud charge in Italy. It is listed on the Ministry of Justice site as an example of making profit by redirecting traffic to a site through deception.
6El5Y TIL that Molly Norris, the cartoonist responsible for starting "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day", was forced by the FBI to change her identity after Islamists put her on a hit list. As of 2015, she's still in hiding.