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

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GAJ44 TIL baseball player John Lindsey spent a record 16 years in the minor leagues before being promoted to the major leagues. He made just 12 appearances in Major League Baseball before breaking his hand. He was sent back down to the Minor Leagues at the start of the next season.
54Np TIL pigs are actually smarter than dogs and possibly even more intelligent than dolphins.
Y7PVd TIL About Medals4Mettle, which re-ribbons your old medals and awards them to kids fighting diseases like cancer.
YpdpP TIL that "mayday!" is derived from the French "m'aidez!", or "help me!". It was chosen for air communication by an Englishman in the 1920s.
LkQrZ TIL Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church subscribed to a Calvinist doctrine known as "equal ultimacy," which holds that there is no free will and that God deliberately causes some people to be righteous and others to be wicked.