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TIL pro baseball lefty slugger Prince Fielder was born a natural right handed hitter, but his father forced him to bat lefty saying he’d “thank him for it later”

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wOm8 TIL the Queen of England has two mentally handicapped cousins, who were disowned by her family and essentially declared dead. One was buried in an unmarked grave, the other is still ignored.