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TIL: Baseball umpires are required to wear black under pants in the rare event that their pants split.

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OoM0X TIL that if Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" was unable to be used, the pub fight scene in "Shaun Of The Dead" would have been set to Boney M's "Rasputin"
MYLA TIL that in from the 1880s to the 1900s, pollution caused by horses was so severe, the presence of the (then unheard of) automobile was regarded as a saviour, as it did not pollute the streets with manure, urine and dead horses.
OoPWg TIL that an unforeseen consequence of London's Walkie Talkie skyscraper was that the building's curvature acts as a concave mirror facing the sun, leading to street-level recordings of temperature as high as 117°C. Parked vehicles have been damaged and a reporter was able to fry an egg on the ground
8KK4 TIL the 1976 Montreal Olympics had a budget of CDN$207 million but cost CDN$1.41 billion. A special tobacco tax was introduced in May 1976 to fund the loss, and it was finally paid off in 2006.
LeXP TIL that the “loose lips sink ships” propaganda campaign in WWII was not really designed to keep shipping information from German agents but rather to keep American morale up by not communicating how many US ships were being sunk by Germany