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

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x6oKb TIL Paul Stanley (lead singer for the rock group KISS) cannot hear out of his right ear. His ear was misshapen from a birth defect called microtia. In 1982 he had reconstructive surgery and his new ear was formed from cartilage from one of his ribs, with skin grafts put over it.
w1MP TIL that in 2011, Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm were found guilty of colluding with each other to repress employee wages.
LkOjP TIL that when a man had a heart attack at a grocery story in rural Minnesota, 20 people lined up and performed CPR on him for over an hour and a half until paramedics arrived - and he survived
B8Dx TIL: It is a common tactic in Scrabble to use words NOT in the dictionary, which is a legal move as long as the other player doesn’t call you out
M7BJB TIL that in Mike Tyson’s last professional boxing match to date, he faced the 6ft 6 Kevin McBride. Tyson would attempt to break McBride’s arm, before being shoved to the floor by McBride and then eventually quitting on his stool, just before the 7th round.