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TIL: A group of 45 men were ejected from a Detroit Tigers game for being dressed as Magnum PI, smoking cigars, and cat-calling women.

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OojVY TIL, a weed-eater is also called a whipper-snipper.
b9Doj TIL that in 1909, a Jewish man named Jules Fisher took over a Filipino shrimping village in the bayous of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. In time, he would become the president of the parish, a state senator, and an affiliate of Huey Long before dying in office at age 69.
0P9N TIL Einstein mediated a hostage situation when, during the WWII aftermath, Berlin University students took several professors captive.
XxEr TIL A law professor discovered a quirk in the law that makes murder technically legal in a 50 sq mile, remote section of Yellowstone National Park. He alerted Congress about the loophole and even wrote draft legislation to close the loophole. Congress has yet to act.
ZpXLo TIL: due to the cooking and canning process, large crystals can form in canned seafood, called Struvite, made of magnesium ammonium phosphate. They are crunchy and unpleasant, but dissolve when eaten and are not harmful.