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TIL Until 1922 you could go to jail for taking a foul ball

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m6ox TIL that India’s richest man lives in a 27-story 400,000 sq ft tower with 4 family members and 600 staff. The 550ft tall building contains a 168-car garage spanning 6 floors, 9 elevators, 4 stories of hanging gardens, a 50-seat theater, an artificial snow room, and 3 helipads, valued at $2bn USD.
wLrE TIL that Michael Jackson’s famous “lean” in Smooth Criminal was made possible through a special patented “anti-gravity illusion” shoe.
ADmAd Today I Learned a man landed a plane in the streets of New York. Then did it again because someone didn't believe him about the first time.
lo5mN TIL that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to apologize to the mother of a dead serviceman in 2009 after he sent her a handwritten letter of condolence that misspelled her name. The Sun tabloid then attacked Brown for making the mistake, & in doing so managed to make the same mistake.
eNn4 TIL dry red kidney beans can be toxic if they are cooked in a slow cooker, which doesn’t get hot enough to get rid of phytohaemagglutnin, causing severe symptoms.