› added 9 months ago

26

TIL Eddie Gaedel was the smallest baseball player to appear in an MLB game (standing 3 feet 7 inches tall, and weighing 60 lbs). While wearing jersey number "1/8", he walked on 4 straight balls in his only plate appearance.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kpXW TIL you are only eligible to audition for the famous Rockettes if your height is between 5'6" and 5'10 1⁄2" tall. The illusion that all the Rockettes are the same height is created by placing the tallest women at the center of the line and then in descending height order to the ends.
xVd0B TIL about Guangxi Massacre occurring between 1966 and 1976 in China. Massive human cannibalism occurred even though no famine existed. Public records indicate that at least 137 people were eaten by others and at least thousands of people participated in the cannibalism.
LkAd9 TIL In the 1960s Soviet Russia trained an all-female space squad in absolute secrecy. One of these cosmonauts — Valentina Tereshkova — became the first woman in space. But the existence of the female program was classified. Moscow shut the space squad down, and hid its existence for decades.
pGPQ Today I learned that Gavin Free of Youtube’s TheSlowMoGuys was the Slow Motion Cinematographer for Hot Fuzz, the Red vs. Blue Series, and Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
gMLm7 TIL about the "Mad Hatterpillar" Uraba lugens, the gum-leaf skeletoniser, Nicknamed the mad hatterpillar because of its distinctive exoskeletal feature. Every time it sheds the head portion of its exoskeleton, stays attached creating a stack of increasingly large heads!