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TIL about auto-antonyms, which are words that can have 2 different meanings that are the opposite of each other. (For example, the word bolt, which can mean "to secure together" or "to flee")

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69RYw TIL that in 1979, during a NHL game between the Rangers and the Bruins, a Rangers fan struck a Bruins player and stole his stick. As a result, almost all of the Bruins went into the stands to confront the fan and beat him up with his own shoe
VBY50 TIL During production of The Godfather, James Caan was known to hang out with Carmine Persico, aka "The Snake", a notorious mafioso and later head of the Colombo crime family. Government agents briefly mistook Caan, who was relatively unknown at the time, as an aspiring mobster.
nereW TIL that giant sloths excavated hundreds of miles of tunnels in South America that still exist to this day
d5RQ TIL General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, on the march north to Gettysburg, captured free black men and sent them south into slavery
LgJm TIL that ‘Presque vu’ is the opposite of 'Déjà vu’, the phenomenon called tip of the tongue, a situation where someone cannot recall a familiar word or name, but with effort eventually recalls the elusive memory.