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TIL that Paul Giamatti's dad was the Commissioner of Baseball and President of Yale University

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wvR1 TIL that Muhammad Ali painted his friend Joe Frazier as an uncle tom, turning many against Frazier. Frazier’s children were bullied and he received threats. Ali promised that he would crawl across the ring and call Frazier the greatest if he beat him, which he refused to do after losing to Frazier.
QJmA9 TIL that the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history occurred on June 8, 1917 when fire broke out in the Speculator Mine in Butte, Montana. 168 miners were killed due to the unsafe conditions, spurring one of the first successful unionizations of workers in the US.
1686P TIL Karen Baldwin, wife of Pittsburgh Penguins owner Howard Baldwin, came up with the pitch for the 1995 action film Sudden Death, filmed at the Penguins' arena. Howard Baldwin produced the film and later opened a production company.
5V16D TIL that United Fruit Company, now Chiquita, played a major role in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’tat after the country redistributed 400,000 acres of uncultivated company land.
BPyr TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.