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TIL: of Jim Abbott, a former pitcher for the Yankees, who was born with one hand, and even threw a No-Hitter in a game despite his disability

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x6yd0 TIL Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt first suggested the name Super Bowl for the 1st AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The idea was inspired by a "Super Ball" toy from Wham-O, but commissioner Pete Rozelle thought it was too gimmicky. It wasn't officially named the Super Bowl until the 3rd edition of the game
v1AJD TIL that The Flaming Lips have to pay half of all royalties for the song ‘Fight Test’ to Yusuf Islam after he sued them for ripping off his ‘Father and Son’. Despite the songs’ striking similarity, Lips’ frontman Wayne Coynes said it was unintended and he only realised when his producer heard it
we4J TIL Megarians doused pigs with combustible pitch or resin, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy’s massed war elephants.
EdBw TIL when Liam Neeson read the script for Taken, he thought the movie would go straight to DVD.
KOOy6 TIL In 2016, a 10-year-old Finnish boy was given $10,000 by Facebook for finding an Instagram bug that allowed him to delete other user's comments.