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TIL that squeezing someone's testicles forcefully can kill them

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D48g TIL Woodie Guthrie said of This Land is Your Land “This song is Copyrighted in U.S… and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do”
jNawj TIL after the Yankees lost a game, player Phil Linz was playing harmonica on the bus. Manager Yogi Berra shouted for him to stop. Linz didn't hear clearly, and asked Mickey Mantle what he said. Mantle replied "He said play louder." A minor fight ensued, and Berra eventually got fired.
korB TIL that candles lit in microgravity (i.e., space) burn not with a yellow, tapered flame, but with a spherical, nearly invisible blue flame
5lD9 TIL the collective name for ladybirds is a loveliness of ladybirds
ova8 TIL Billy Mays would only sell products that passed his test, that worked and that he himself used at home.