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TIL in their 45 years playing, the San Diego Padres are the only team in Major League Baseball to have never pitched a no-hitter.

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16xlO TIL western actor Jack Elam, known for his damaged eye, lost the use of that eye at a Boy Scout meeting at age 11 when another scout stabbed him with a pencil.
R7Lkj TIL About Rachel Corrie, an American Peace Activist that was killed by Israeli Defense Forces when they were bulldozing Palestinian homes
x6Jl7 TIL there is a man buried on the moon. Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer of planetary science and a founder of astrogeology became the first and only person to be buried on the moon when his ashes arrived there with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on July 31, 1999.
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