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TIL baseball has a “golden ticket” that gives free admission to any game. It’s given to players after 8 years in the major leagues, people who have worked for a team for 25 years, and other VIPs. NASA astronauts, returning Vietnam POWs, and the the 1979 hostages in Iran were all given one.

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Y7gMd TIL in 2014, John Wick, then known as Scorn, had no distributor as late as 2 months before its release and came very close to going direct-to-DVD.
v1bkr TIL that in 2018, an 18-year-old memorized the order of a shuffled deck of 52 cards in 12.74 seconds.
P18Lg TIL about Tuyas. A tuya is a flat topped, steep-sided volcano formed when lava erupts through a thick glacier or ice sheet. They can be found in Iceland, Canada, The United States, and Antarctica
b91k9 TIL that the term "spontaneous order" is used to describe the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos in various contexts, such as in the formation of language.
grWOy Til The Amazing world of Gumball could not seek legal action against a copycat so they made an episode making fun of them which ends in the copycats getting killed.