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TIL: Yankee Stadium once had three bronze plaques mounted on blocks of granite commemorating Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Miller Huggins sitting just in front of a flagpole with the US flag in center field - in the field of play.

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xVE15 TIL that Bill Millin, a soldier in WWII, walked onto Normandy Beach on D-Day without a gun and began playing the bagpipes. When ordered to do so beforehand, he had pointed out that it was against British regulations, and his commander told him "You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply".
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