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TIL Band-aids emit a blue flash of light when pulled apart - visible to the human eye when you do it in the dark!

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LQkwr TIL the first player to play in Negro League Baseball who would go on to play for a current MLB team was not Jackie Robinson but Pedro Dibut, a White Hispanic player from Cuba who played for Cuban Stars in 1923 and the Cincinnati Reds in 1924
e0xKD TIL that in 1982 Jim Rice saved a 4 year old boys life. The boy was hit in the face by a foul ball and Rice knew it would take several minutes for the ballparks EMS to get to the boy. He immediately sprinted into the stands, picked up the boy, and ran him into the dugout to the team doctor.
16GRO TIL In the 21 World Cup tournaments held, 79 nations have appeared at least once. Of these, 13 have made it to the final match, and only eight have won.
E1yaw TIL that during the chrysalis faze of metamorphosis, a caterpillar digests itself by releasing enzymes that break down all of its tissues. Specialized groups of cells survive the process and use the protein-rich soup to build the adult body parts of the butterfly.
KO4bB TIL that Luckenbach, Texas, which was made famous in a Waylon Jennings song, has a population of 3.