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TIL of the "Malice at the Palace", a 2004 fight between the NBA Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons as well as fans that resulted in nine players being suspended and five charged with assault, as well as five fans also facing assault charges and being banned from attending Pistons games for life

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wL956 TIL axolotl are a population of larval tiger salamanders that mutated the ability to forego metamorphosis when reaching sexual maturity. They retain their larval gills which enable them to live fully aquatically. They are used in labs to study the thyroid, which regulates their maturing.
8eQ4 TIL that in 2010 security researchers were invited to try to tamper with an Internet voting pilot. Within 36 hours they had made the website play the Michigan fight song and changed all the votes to write-ins for various fictional robots and computers.
5VYGP TIL the baby boomers in the 1940s were the first to be dressed in the sex-specific clothing that Americans are familiar with today. Boys and girls were dressed like miniature men and women instead of uniformly in children’s dresses. Pink became the girls’ color, blue the boys’.
ybKp TIL civil rights Latino leader Cesar Chavez fought illegal immigration throughout his career because it undermined US workers with a constant supply of cheap labour that was not likely to complain or protest when exploited
0wvPA TIL that Brutus, the famous senator who murdered Julius Caesar, was a descendant of Lucius Junius Brutus, the man who overthrew the Roman King Tarquin the Proud and established the Roman Republic