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TIL Qatar owns 17% of Volkswagen

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M7Vma TIL that in 1912 Chicago Cubs manager/first baseman Frank Chance had multiple surgeries on his brain to remove blood clots from being hit in the head by pitches. He went back to playing (for the Yankees) the next year.
J1g8j TIL there are still US companies that produce uranium glass items today. It is not nearly as rare as people think it is, with approximately 4.1 million pieces still in circulation. For comparison, a working Playstation 1 is rarer.
PYZZV TIL about Obstetrical Forceps, a tool used like a pair of pincers to literally pull out stuck babies during births.
loQG TIL Curiosity’s average traveling speed is so low, that it would take 3 hours and 40 minutes for it to travel across a football field (endzones included)
mxpXM TIL that during the Great Leap Forward, when Chinese sparrows were deemed a pest and tried to be exterminated, some of the sparrows found refuge at the Polish Embassy in Beijing. The Embassy refused to scare away the birds and was surrounded by people playing on drums causing the sparrows to die.