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TIL the knuckleball is so rare in baseball that pitchers who use it share tips and suggestions even if on competing teams, because they have no others on their own teams to discuss the pitch with.

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mxaPE TIL the character of Oliver in novel and movie Love Story, is partly based on Tommy Lee Jones who author Erich Segal met at Harvard. Jones plays one of Oliver's roommates in the 1970 film
YkA7 TIL Christopher Lee makes it his goal to read the Lord of the Rings once a year, every year in memory of his old friend J.R.R Tolkien
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