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TIL the theme from ‘New York, New York’ was played over the loudspeakers at both the original and current Yankee Stadiums at the end of every Yankee home game. They played the Sinatra version if they won, the Liza Minnelli version if the lost – until Minnelli herself complained.

nBLB TIL During the 1996 Vendee Globe, a solo round the world boat race, Pete Goss gave up his chance of winning and despite being 1400 miles from land turned 160 miles back into a storm in order to save the life of another competitor.
69lXw TIL that in 2017 an 8 year old boy drove himself and his 4 year old sister to a McDonald's drive thru while following all traffic laws. He did this after learning how to drive on YouTube. No charges were ever filed by authorities and the two kids happily enjoyed their McDonald's
Oojw4 TIL Early in life, Abraham Lincoln wrestled. When local gang leader Jack Armstrong heard of him, he challenged The Honest One to a match. It ended with Abe grabbing him by the throat, hoisting him up, giving a little shake, then throwing him to the dirt. It was the first chokeslam used in wrestling.
GYLP4 Til in Belgium, and some other countries, it is illegal to wear a mask that covers your face in whole or in part, in such a way as to be unidentifiable.
jo5a TIL Komodo dragons can reproduce completely asexually, through a process called parthenogenesis. Furthermore, offspring reproduced by this process can only be male. This means that a single female dragon can create an entirely new colony without a mate.