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TIL that in 1986 a fan in the upper deck at Yankee Stadium threw a knife that grazed Angels first-basemen Wally Joyner.

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4XBG5 Til about the Harlequin Shrimps monstrous eating habits! This species of shrimp feed exclusively on star fish and will form gangs to subdue the starfish and devour a leg or two. They have also been observed feeding the starfish to keep it alive, therefore growing back its limbs to be eaten again!!
WkvYN TIL, YMCA help invent Basketball, Volleyball and Racquetball
bZx0 TIL nukes can have their yield ‘dialed’ or adjusted up or down, from city-buster to tiny puff of single kiloton smoke, while in the silo or even in flight.
1aPN4 TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" as it exists today is largely a modern reconstruction. The painting was already severely deteriorated within sixty years of being painted, and has since suffered flooding, bombing, French revolutionaries, a scratchy curtain and use as a prison cell.
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