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TIL LoanDepot Park had an aquarium that acted as a backstop during Miami Marlins MLB games. It was removed in 2021

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N06J TIL that the Irish Parliament once passed a bill of attainder requiring thousands to go to Dublin for sentencing for their supposed disloyalty. Viscount Mountjoy was in prison in the Bastille at the time; he was ordered to break out and get to Dublin, or else face being drawn and quartered.
X7Pr TIL that during the pursuit of Gary Powers in his U2 spy plane on May 1st 1960, the USSR fired so many surface-to-air missiles in his general direction that one struck a soviet MiG-19 fighter sent to intercept him
QoL9 TIL that navel lint is caused by hairs around the stomach operating as a “one-way ratchet mechanism” that removes fibers from inside your clothes and deposits them into your navel
BZkb TIL in WWI, a man was shot in the frontal lobe and, as a result, never slept again. He lived for 40 years after this injury.
4XRNN TIL Universal Studios, United Artists, and Disney rejected to get involved with "Star Wars" due to budget concerns or believing it wouldn't succeed due to being too strange. Only 20th Century Fox agreed because they wanted to form relations with George Lucas after his success of "American Graffiti".