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TIL Eddie Gaedel, the shortest player in MLB history, was killed when he was only 36. Not even his owner Bill Veeck attended his funeral. The only MLB person to attend was Bob Cain, who was the pitcher for Gaedel's only plate appearance.

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mxMZP TIL that the Constitutional Apportionment Amendment, which was the first article of what would eventually become the Bill of Rights, had a matematical error in it that would have made it impossible to enforce. Despite the error, the amendment came a state away from passing on two separate occasions.
7rKn7 TIL that four bodies of members of the Romanov royal family of Imperial Russia, after execution in 1918, were buried at a Russian Orthodox site in Beijing, China, the 1920s. One of the two sites believed to hold the bodies, a cemetery, has since been made into a city park with a golf course.
X0vPr TIL In February 1985, Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, and Chedly Klibi, the mayor of Carthage signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the Third Punic War, 2,134 years after it began.
e0v05 TIL that schistosomiasis, a parasite infection that causes bloody urine, was so common in Egypt that French doctors traveling with Napoleon during his 1798 campaign described Egypt as the only country where men menstruate.
Brknd TIL: Most social media negatively impact the mental health of teenagers, particular girls. This has led to increasing suicide rates and depression. The worst offender found is Instagram in 2017 and institutions have tried have a warning label on images that have been Photoshopped or edited.