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TIL of WWII vet Bert Shepard, the only man to ever pitch in Major League Baseball with an artificial leg

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gr9p9 TIL about a bird called a green jay, a brilliant green, yellow, and blue jay of the tropics whose range barely stretches to southern Texas.
PYpxO TIL that in 2012, after the Kazakhstan's shooting team won a medal at the championships in Kuwait, instead of the country's national anthem being played, the joke national anthem from the Borat movie was played.
WEP4 TIL that not even a doctor can tell the difference between the lungs of a smoker vs. a non-smoker just by looking at them. Smoking cigarettes does not turn your lungs black
rw7d TIL That there are (currently) more #1 MLB draft picks serving time in a correctional institution, than there are in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
N68P TIL Schopenhauer called the post-orgasm moment of clarity as “devil’s laughter” because it’s when we realize we’re slaves to a biological imperative uncaring of our happiness.