› added 4 years ago

160

TIL That in 1919, during a baseball game, the pitcher (Ray Caldwell) was struck by a bolt of lightning. He stayed in to throw the complete game.

Read more baseballessential.com

via reddit.com

XEP4D TIL In "Games without Frontiers" by Peter Gabriel that "she" is not "funky, yeah" or "Popular" it's "jeux sans frontières" (french)
xpbw TIL when the allies bombed Hamburg in July 1943, the unusually warm and dry weather conditions created “a vortex and whirling updraft of super-heated air which created a 1,500-foot-high tornado of fire, a totally unexpected effect.”
DQYGp TIL about Colobopsis explodens, the "suicidal attack ants" found in Southeast Asia. Their rare combat mechanism involves workers exploding in self-defense, smothering enemies with toxic "yellow goo."
5NWB TIL Africans in Nazi Germany had a better chance of survivng than germans, since they were excluded from the military due to their non-Aryan status, but also were not segregated/incarcerated.
Qxe TIL Zablon Simintov is the only jew left in Afghanistan