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TIL there are baby MRI machines!

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grxjD TIL that one of the rarest events in baseball is the unassisted triple play, wherein one defensive player makes three outs on a single play. There have only been 15 in MLB history, making it rarer than a perfect game.
b6Poj TIL: “Laika” is the name of husky-like breeds of dogs in Russian … but the famous Space Dog—whose name was Laika—was just a mutt, not one of those breeds.
4kOPN TIL the builders of the Greate Pyramids of Gizah (2500 BC) were not in their time called "pharaoh". The title is first recorded over 1000 years later.
kJdbE TIL: The slow worm is neither a worm nor a snake despite having no limbs.
D1PXe TIL King Louis XV was stabbed with a knife in an assassination attempt, and fearing he's dying requested to confess and asked forgiveness from his wife for having a number of affairs. He didn't die. The knife only penetrated less than an inch of skin