But you can get a mysterious IMDB entry!

Fifteen years ago Don Mattingly was the greatest Yankee never to have won a world series, but the baseball gods have gifted us a whole new generation of Yankees without rings.

Yeah, "dodge sales tax by claiming you're using something in a lower tax jurisdiction" is an idea that popped up about two seconds after the first sales tax in history was proposed; the tax authorities have had some time to write rules closing that "loophole."

Gist is that he lives in Tennessee and registered his exotic car under a Montana shell company to avoid paying sales tax. Turns out that works as a way to avoid *paying* sales tax, but not as a way to avoid *owing* sales tax.

Not sure if this is what Amanda was thinking of, but the iconic black-and-white soccer ball design (that one: ⚽) originated with the Adidas Telstar (designed to be visible to people watching the world cup on kinda fuzzy black and white TVs in the earliest days of satellite TV links)

Yes please. I think everyone in my life (parents, siblings, spouse, kids) wants books about maps and/or books with lots of interesting maps for Christmas.

It helps that one coyote and a bucket of paint can create a mile of road in seconds.

Also the solution to "I have broth left over from the hot pot place"

Oh, I know this one! Put the starchy water in a container, telling yourself that you'll use it to thicken sauces. Stick it in the fridge. Over the next few weeks, gradually move it to the back of the fridge as other things take priority. Forget about it. Eventually clean out the fridge and toss it.

Except that NBA cup games also count as regular season games, except when they don't.

Next do state capitals that end in "rson City"

They named their whole country after walking slow, what did you expect?

TIL the catcher is still allowed to block the plate, and the runner is still allowed to initiate a collision with him.