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TIL Jon Miller, a professional baseball player, hit a home run his first at bat and his final at bat. These were the only 2 of his career.

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wkNW TIL sniffer dogs used for finding illegal substances are largely inaccurate, with 4 in 5 ‘positive’ cases being wrong.
9D6X TIL That a Jehovah’s Witness Bethel Elder who was a minister at their world headquarters, was arrested for trying to solicit young boys for sex and evidence found linking the elder to an international child porn ring.
dD958 TIL that during Covid, Indonesia locked those refusing to follow quarantine in "haunted" houses.
gMYeW TIL: During the Vietnam War one damaged American F-4 Phantom fighter pushed another damaged F-4 away from certain capture by resting the second airplane’s tail hook onto his own cockpit glass and pushing him to a safer location before both crews bailed out and were rescued the next day.
KOO6w TIL a hypothetical structure called a Matrioshka Brain could have enough computational power to simulate an entire alternate universe.