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TIL: Russians purchased 500,000 baseball bats in 2014 but only one ball

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kOyam TIL that people used to believe that mischievous sprits lived in the grains of wood, so while they were speaking about good fortune they would "knock on wood" to make noise so that the spirits couldn't hear what they were saying and cause their fortune to take a turn for the worse.
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