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TIL:A 17 year old girl struck out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig back to back and was banned from pro baseball for her efforts

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6Ekpm TIL about Orlando Serrell, after being hit in the head at the age of 10 with a baseball he can recall the weather, where he was, and what he did every day since his accident
woe5M TIL During the world war II, German saboteurs operating against Britain, designed chocolate bar bombs that were intended to be smuggled into Britain with the purpose of assassination.
LQpXP TIL that in recorded history, there has only been a single hurricane in the South Atlantic Ocean to which made landfall. Ever.
VB45Q TIL Albert Einstein wrote a preface to the German edition of Upton Sinclair's 1930 "Mental Radio" book, which explores telepathy and the authors' experiments in psychic communication with his wife. He wrote that the book "deserves the most earnest consideration from psychologists"
9a7p TIL in 2013 Europe was hit by a horse meat scandal, in which 300 tons of horse meat was found throughout the EU food supply labeled as beef. The source was traced to a Romanian slaughterhouse, who sold it as horse meat to a chain of Cyprus, Dutch, and Irish resellers who mislabeled it.