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TIL a baseball pitcher can kill you with a good fastball, and this has happened in a Major League Baseball game.

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XEGd6 TIL that bicameralism - the idea that humans once had two independent ‘entities’ in the brain - theorises that ‘gods’ were just voices heard by the ancient human, and religious rituals were just an attempt to hear the ‘gods’ again once modern consciousness evolved.
pp5b TIL that after the Supreme Court ruled inter-racial marriage legal, local judges in Alabama continued to enforce that state’s anti-miscegenation law (the same state that still refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses)
mxyRy TIL of the Burghers of Calais. In 1346, Edward III laid siege to Calais, but agreed to spare the town if 6 wealthy residents surrendered, wearing nooses around their necks and carrying the keys to the city. Six volunteered, facing certain execution. They were spared on the advice of Queen Philippa
kJB4g TIL due to Disneyland's immense popularity, Southern California boasts many locations that ripoff or imitate its distinctive aesthetic
16ODX TIL that in 1993, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train derailed on CSX Transportation's Big Bayou Canot Bridge in Alabama. 47 people were killed and 103 others were injured. Such a rail disaster had not occurred in the U.S. since the 1958 Newark Bayou rail accident, in which 48 people died.