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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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OGxw1 TIL: Ukehi is a Japanese Shinto divination ritual that has 6 functions. To kill your enemies, manipulate the weather, animate living beings, predict an outcome, establish the will of kami, or ask for information. Normally it is used to ask a question. If nothing happens, the kami disapproves.
9YVBG TIL: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born physicist, discovered that atomic nuclei can be split in half. She and her nephew explained and named nuclear fission in 1939, but the recognition went to Otto Hahn for this discovery. He was granted a Nobel Prize in 1944 in Chemistry.
xV8xw TIL in April of 1997, the internet faced a blackout due to a single bad router in Florida. The bug spread like a plague across the world, crashing networks everywhere.
aKlL TIL the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds plus 40 equals the temperature in Farenheit.
aGZy TIL the US supported dictator Ferdinand Marcos during most of his 20 year reign of The Philippines giving him billions in aid. During this time, he imposed martial law, stole billions from the people of The Philippines and imprisoned or killed those who opposed him.