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TIL after rain delays and going 19 innings, Fourth of July fireworks were set off at a baseball game at 4 a.m. on July 5 leading to calls to 911

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ODBL TIL that the creators of Sesame Street had to change Mr Snuffleupagus’s appearance because he was too frightening for children. He originally had narrow yellow eyes.
moaO TIL that Sadie Hawkins was the ugliest girl in town and that’s why she couldn’t get a date. So, they hosted a footrace and forced the slowest man to marry her.
DQnaJ TIL that Krazy Kat, William Randolph Hearst's favorite kartoon kat, was gender fluid: sometimes male, sometimes female, but always in love with the (male) Ignatz Mouse.
rN61e TIL the oldest professional football club of any code in the world is Melbourne Demons in the AFL
VMEvQ TIL that in the 1950's and 60's Americans were told that by the year 2000 the normal work week would be 20-30 hours, and people would be committing suicide from boredom.