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TIL future actor Michael Clarke Duncan participated in the 1979 Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago, where he slid into third base, had a silver belt buckle stolen, and stole a bat from the dugout.

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pwW8 TIL That other than humans, ravens are the only other animals that act silly when alone just for the sheer pleasure
VMa0G TIL in 2008, researchers at Toronto Western Hospital were conducting experimental deep brain stimulation for obesity treatment & discovered that it caused vivid memory flashbacks, which led to their method being used in a Phase 3 trial for Alzheimer's disease
R5ml TIL that there is a boat which sails around to countries with restrictive abortion laws, and offers abortions in international waters.
ep08E TIL when actor Chazz Palminteri was 9yrs old living in the Bronx, he witnessed a mobster get killed in front of his apartment building. He included the incident in a one man play he wrote and starred in that Robert Deniro saw. They decided to turn it into the movie "A Bronx Tale".
gM5GD TIL that the furthest detected individual star is 14.4 billion light years from Earth. We can detect it from so far away because gravity from objects between us and the star have warped its light, magnifying it 2000 times and focusing the star's light onto Earth for telescopes to pick up.