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TIL there is a Major League Baseball pitcher who retired with an ERA of infinity. He never got an out in his one appearance, letting up seven runs.

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j6BvX TIL actress Catherine Russell has only missed four performances (to attend siblings' weddings) as the lead in the off-Broadway play Perfect Crime since it opened in 1987. She holds the world record for most performances as the same character in a play with over 13,800.
M8eK TIL that in 1932 a riot invaded Newfoundland’s government building. The prime minister barely escaped injury and resigned. In 1933 the country—like Canada, an independent English-speaking country neighboring the US—gave up self-government and voluntarily became a British colony again.
Oo9VY TIL there is an asteroid named after Tom Hanks. It's called "12818 Tomhanks" and orbits the Asteroid Belt in between Mars and Jupiter.
XEmK8 TIL of “The Custom of the Sea,” an old tradition among sailors where in dire circumstances, such as being stranded at sea and on the verge of starvation, the remaining sailors would all draw straws and whoever drew the shortest would then be killed and eaten to ensure the survival of the others.
7A8r TIL Stan Musial and his high school basketball teammates threatened to forfeit a basketball tournament because their hotel’s restaurant wouldn’t seat their two African-American teammates with the rest of the team. One of those players was Buddy Griffey, Ken’s father and Jr’s Grandpa