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gMk07 TIL that Sammy Sosa suffered from an extreme back spasm before a game in 2004 as the result of two violent sneezes. He had to sit the game out and receive an epidural to bring down the inflammation.
6EKjJ TIL that a species of pine beetle has been devastating trees in the Rocky Mountain region as the climate warms
kbNg TIL only two percent of the fissile material in Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, actually detonated. In other words, seven-tenths of a gram of Uranium-235 leveled a two-mile radius of the city.
rRZRy TIL that during the Prague Uprising at the end of WWII, two escaped British POWs approached a garrison of Waffen-SS and claimed to represent a regiment of paratroopers and threatened to call in an airstrike on the building they occupied. The Germans surrendered.
7rLoM TIL that during construction of the new Yankee Stadium, a construction worker and avid Boston Red Sox fan buried a replica jersey of Red Sox player David Ortiz underneath the visitors' dugout with the objective of placing a "hex" on the Yankees, much like the "Curse of the Bambino."