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TIL during the pre-game broadcast of a September 27, 2009 MLB game between the Mariners and the Blue Jays, announcer Mike Blowers eerily predicted a players 1st homerun with uncanny accuracy.

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gMoeX TIL that matches weren't invented until 1826. As John Walker stirred a pot of chemicals, a lump formed on the end of the mixing stick. He tried scraping the dried chemicals off, igniting the stick and accidentally inventing matches.
GYmo5 TIL that the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson US supreme court decision, which upheld that segregation was constitution, has never been explicitly overruled. Technically, with the exception of education, segregation is still constitutional in the USA.
45Dw TIL that in 1973, the CIA launched a covert operation that overthrew Chile’s longstanding democratic government and replaced it with a military dictatorship rife with human rights violations.
6lal TIL that the last president to have a net worth under a million dollars was Harry Truman in 1945
69WnX TIL that boxer Oliver McCall’s actions against opponent Lennox Lewis (including crying, walking around the ring, and refusing to fight) in 1997, that he was deemed mentally ill and sent to a psychiatric ward after the match.