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TIL Mets fan Mike Sergio parachuted on to the field during the 1986 World Series. He was jailed for 21 days and given 500 hours community service. To this day he refuses to reveal the pilots name.

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M71ym TIL about the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre (21 people killed and 19 more injured in a 77-minute span by James Huberty)
nld9 TIL 80,000 years ago, change from a vegetarian diet to eating meat may have enabled brain size to increase, which resulted in evolution to homo sapiens.
9YpQp TIL scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfectly preserved in amber. It is full of feathers.
NXnZ1 TIL the last nuclear explosion happened in 2017. It was performed in North Korea by an underground thermonuclear weapon. It was the county’s sixth nuclear test.
p8Anp TIL Ernesto Miranda's supreme court case led to the Miranda rights (“you have the right to remain silent...”). Miranda himself was later killed in a bar fight. His killer got away with it... because he chose to remain silent.