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TIL Joe Mauer only struck out once in four years of high school baseball.

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0d8Xj TIL that Apollo 12 astronauts secretly brought a camera timer on the space mission. The two who landed on the moon planned to take a selfie with both of them to mystify people back on Earth. The plan failed when they could not find the timer.
xE1w TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons
nWwV9 TIL that the Aztecs sometimes held a festival called Pillahuana, where young children would get drunk as an initiation into adulthood
wLwZP TIL NASA is proposing to cool the Yellowstone super volcano by drilling down 10km into the super volcano and pumping in water at a high pressure. They then plan to use the extracted heat as a resource for power.
6EGYW TIL the verb “eavesdrop” is a back-formation from the noun “eavesdropper”, which was formed from the unrelated noun eavesdrop (“the dripping of water from the eaves of a house”). An eavesdropper was someone who stands at the eavesdrop (i.e., next to the house) so as to hear what is said within.