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TIL that Anthony W. Case had hoped of playing college baseball until he was shot in 1998, with injuries that prevented him from doing so. After this, he decided to pursue a career in astrophysics, and has since helped develop Faraday cups on space probes, including the Parker Solar Probe.

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