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TIL Many Major League Baseball players have refused to face softball pitcher Jennie Finch in her ‘This Week in Baseball’ TV segment, where she challenges the best hitters in MLB, because she strikes out so many of them.

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e0Ljb TIL that young boys who were vocally talented used to be castrated in order to keep their singing talent. This would prevent them from sexually maturing
R57nQ TIL of Skeuomorphs, objects designed to look like an older version of the same object. Examples include fake buckles on leather shoes, rivets on jeans, mechanical arms on slot machines, and digital apps designed to look like their analog equivalent.
yQGX TIL that, if you discount the Bible, there was no record of Jewish enslavement in Egypt
rNJvy TIL that reindeer eyeballs turn blue in winter to help them see at lower light levels. (They're golden-colored in summer.) No other mammals are known to have this ability.
lo8VG TIL Temple of Doom is a Prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. RotLA is set in 1936 and TOD is set in 1935