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TIL Frank Thomas is the only baseball player with over 10,000 at bats who never recorded a sacrifice bunt

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1aWBO TIL that Soviet Armenian swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan was finishing a 12-mile run when he heard a bus crash into the water. He dove down 33 ft, and rescued 20 people, 1 at a time. He is an 11-time World Record holder, 17-time World Champion, 13-time European Champion and 7-time USSR Champion.
M1gK TIL The firemen that went up on Chernobyl’s roof almost instantly received a fatal radiation dose when they looked down into the reactor to extinguish the flames. A scientist later observed their hoses dangling above the reactor, the firemen not there anymore. None were ever seen again.
XVBr TIL that Saudi Arabia imports sand and camels from Australia
ykQV TIL that Howard Hughes special ordered 200 gallons of Baskin-Robbins’ Banana Ripple ice cream, then decided days later he preferred Chocolate Marshmallow. And as of 1996 it was thought that the ice cream still lingered in the Desert Inn’s freezer.
aXVM TIL Wilhelm Neubronner used pigeons to deliver medications from his pharmacy, when neighbouring villages received their own pharmacies his son patented the invention of aerial photography by attaching camera to the pigeons.