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TIL that 5 players played all nine positions in one game in MLB history.

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WkMEB TIL During the US invasion of Afghanistan, a CIA paramilitary team was asked by a young man for help in rescuing his sister, whom a senior Taliban official had taken as his wife. They gave him a tracking device to pass along to her. As a result, the team captured the Taliban and rescued the sister.
Yeav TIL that the reason announcers and commentators of the 1950s spoke so oddly is because they spoke in something called “Transatlantic speech”. Another reason why is because the audio receivers of the day couldn’t pick up bass tones.
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