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TIL Dottie Collins pitched until she was four months pregnant during the 1948 season with with the AAGPBL

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rRJY4 TIL about Dr. Leonoid Rogozov, a physician who took part in an antarctic expedition in 1961, developed appendicitis and successfully performed a self-appendectomy with the help of a driver and meteorologist at their Antarctic research station.
Rpj9 TIL Smoking hookah is no safer than smoking cigarettes and in fact “Smokers may absorb more of the toxic substances also found in cigarette smoke than cigarette smokers do.”
neQmo TIL That in 1978, a group of 18 farmers from Xiaogang Village in Anhui Province, China, secretly agreed to abandon collectivism and adopt private property rights by subdividing their collective farm. The change resulted in a harvest larger than the previous five years combined.
WkmW9 TIL that when a sailor with chronic sea sickness was ordered back to sea because the doctors denied that sea sickness was a real illness, an admiral ordered all port medical staff to take a short voyage by ship in rough seas. The next day the doctors changed their opinion.
oB4GA TIL Richard Nixon could have used his birthright as a Quaker to avoid the draft, but chose to enlist anyway.