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TIL Victims of the Iranian Hostage Crisis were issued a "golden ticket" by Major League Baseball, a lifetime pass to attend any regular season game typically reserved for US Presidents and notable former major leaguers.

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DkBJ TIL the blackberry plants growing all over Seattle and the West Coast are all the fault of gardening fanatic Luther Burbank
R7o49 TIL though Madagascar now produces 80% of the world’s vanilla, the vine is native to Mexico. The Maya were the first to cultivate it in the jungles of the Yucatan peninsular. They flavoured their chocolate drink with the spice.
PYXGZ TIL that the sex of a sea turtle is determined by the temperature of the egg. Below 81.86°F the hatchling will be male, above 87.8°F the hatchling will be female
MeYp8 TIL an HIV-positive New Zealand man pricked his sleeping wife with a needle tainted with his blood, infecting her with the virus in hopes that she would have sex with him again.
Eg5Qo TIL about Genericide - where a trademark is lost because the trademarked term becomes the generic name for the item so it can't be copyrighted; this happened to "escalator" where it lost its copyright when it became the common term for any kind of moving stairs.