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TIL Bobby Murcer promised to hit a home run for a terminally ill young fan before a game in 1977—and he hit two of them! The announcers went nuts. There was only one problem—that’s how the boy found out he was dying.

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NXg0M TIL that there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe.