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gMKvW TIL that when legendary baseball player Yogi Berra died in 2015, the Associated Press obituary accidentally announced the death of Yogi Bear.
LQAkV TIL that the inventor of the motorcycle died while riding his own motorcycle design at the age of 72. A newspaper headline said that Sylvester Roper "Died in the Saddle".
9Ypmm TIL In 1908 William "Bigfoot" Anakin, a local champion, was taken along by a publican to court to help demonstrate that darts was not gambling, it was a game of skill. He threw three darts in the center, no other court official could do the same. The judge ruled that darts was a game of skill.
grANW TIL Dina Sanichar was raised by wolves in the Uttar Pradesh jungle in India until hunters found him in 1867 at the age of 6. He never learned to interact with another human being.
R486 TIL pavement damage is proportional to the fourth power of the vehicle weight, so a 9-ton truck does over 3000 times the road damage of a 1-ton car.