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TIL a baseball stadium organ player was ejected from a game after playing "3 Blind Mice" in response to what he thought was a bad call by the umpire

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4XxrN TIL of Herostratus, an Ancient Greek arsonist who burned down the Temple of Artemis in the hope that he would be remembered forever. His city not only executed him, but forbade his name ever being spoken again in the hopes of preventing this, obviously unsuccessfully
D1OyY TIL about the volcano that created Bermuda is unlike any on Earth. Also that Bermuda was created by a volcano.
4bG5 TIL in 2010, the floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Sweden collapsed beneath a group of 20 members who were in line for their weekly weigh in. The floor collapsed in one corner of the room, fault lines spread, & other sections of the floor gave way. Nobody was hurt.
pX9A TIL that Nazi scientists tried to reverse-engineer extinct animals through selective breeding, such as the Aurochs and Wisent, as part of their effort to “restore” a primeval Germany.
a6j0 TIL 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sent the FBI on wild goose chases, literally, by claiming that some geese in Central Park had explosives stuffed up their ass