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TIL in 2005, a L.A. Dodgers pitcher offered the Miami Marlins batboy $500 if he could drink a gallon of milk in under an hour without throwing up. The batboy drank the milk in 59 minutes but threw up outside the clubhouse. The episode prompted the Marlins to suspend the batboy for 6 games.

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mx4oM TIL in the 1920s, a strange disease known as encephalitis lethargica spread throughout the world, effecting 5 million people. It killed 1 million, and many of the survivors were left unable to move or speak, but were conscious and aware. No cure was ever found, and it disappeared by 1926.
N7o96 TIL the first hard drive that could store 1 GB was made in 1980 by IBM and weighed the same as an average adult anaconda. It cost $40,000.
N7WlN TIL that the Bermuda triangle isn't statistically more dangerous than almost any other place on the world's oceans per capita, the traffic there is just much higher.
woZ7P TIL a Puget Sound orca called L25 is the oldest known living wild orca in the world. While her exact age is uncertain, she's estimated to be anywhere from her mid-80s to her mid-90s. In 1976 when the Center for Whale Research's census began, the original estimate for L25's birth year was 1928.
D4Dj TIL, That the Vatican admitted that Galileo was correct about Earth revolving around The Sun, in 1992