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TIL Mickey Mantle, Hall of Fame CF, tore his ACL in his rookie year during the 1951 World Series. He went on to play the rest of his 18-year career on a torn ACL.

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W7yaB TIL that the dress codes are symbolic indications of different social ideas. The history started from the 7th through the 9th centuries, the European royalty and nobility used a dress code to differentiate themselves from other people through ornamented garments, especially the collar.
lokaK TIL of Reet Jurvetsen, a 19-year-old woman who was murdered in 1969. Her body remained unidentified for 46 years, until her older sister was contacted by friends who noticed a similarity between Reet and an online mortuary photograph of the body.
OGAoY TIL that Lea Thompson, who starred in Howard the Duck, 1986 movie, subsequently married Howard Deutch. She must have a thing for Howard Ds.
VmE8 TIL Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, allows any company that can make functioning Star Trek technology to use the name free of charge.
ANx4g TIL about the complicated border in the village of Baarle, which has 22 Belgian exclaves and seven Dutch enclaves within the Belgian exclaves