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TIL that Baseball Hall-of-Famer Andre Dawson went unsigned in the 86-87 offseason due to collusion. So, he showed up to Cubs Spring Training with a blank contract and let the team fill-in whatever terms they wanted. Dawson would go on to win the National League Most Valuable Player award that year.

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0m4L TIL when three men with machetes came into an African orphanage at night, a man named Omari took a hammer to fight all three at once. He survived after getting hit in the face with a machete, and saved all of the children. His story, first shared on Reddit, helped raise $83,000 for the orphanage.
r1Z4 TIL that Picard’s flute sold for $48,000 at auction in 2006.
ne40r TIL Buckminster Fuller would sleep 2 hrs a day by taking 30 mins naps every 6 hrs, and was able to fall asleep in 30 seconds.
m1Vbv TIL that cucumber (96%), radish (95%) and tomato (94%) have more water in them than watermelon (92%).
w761 TIL that the sun revolves around the Milky Way, it’s called a galactic year, and takes 250 mil. years to cycle. We are literally on the same cycle that started when the dinosaurs roamed. Meaning we are physically somewhere new in space that we’ve never been before every second until this day.