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TIL that MLB uniforms are not allowed to display “a pattern that imitates or suggests the shape of a baseball”

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OonbL TIL I learned that Medal of Honor recipients are entitled to much more than the medal including a $1,300 monthly bonus, 10% retirement raise & may wear their uniform even after they are out of the service.
XGNX TIL revolving doors were invented by someone who hated holding the door for women and decided to do something about it.
lonBN TIL Lt. Colonel Dale Zelko, who's F117A was shot down in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, is now friends with and runs a bakery with the Serb who shot him down: Colonel Zoltán Dani.
EgkbW TIL that the two stars of Kickboxer (1989), Jean Claude Van Damme (Sloane) and Michael Qissi (Tong Po) were both uncredited extras for the outdoor dance scenes for the movie Breakin’ (1984).
aOk0 TIL that on August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a wave of concentrated carbon dioxide that killed around 1,800 people and thousands of animals almost instantaneously. One witness said, “On that day there were no flies on the dead. The flies were dead too.”