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TIL of Brady Feigl a 6'4" redheaded minor league baseball pitcher in the Oakland Athletics system and Brady Feigl a 6'4" redheaded minor league baseball pitcher in the Texas Rangers system. Despite being each others doppelganger, DNA test did not indicate they were related to each other.
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TIL about Low-background steel, any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s and now typically found in shipwrecks. It is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout.
Mjk7
TIL that Jacksonville, Fla., was the winter filming capital of the early US movie industry but conservative residents objected, a mayor was elected on anti-movie platform, and so the industry moved on to Southern California
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TIL that Edo-era Japanese samurais considered homosexuality as honorable, and teaches them virtue unlike the love of women was causing a “feminizing effect” and was deemed a necessity.
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TIL Scientists have created a sonic “tractor beam” that can pull, push and pirouette objects that levitate in thin air.