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TIL Aroldis Chapman's 105 mph pitch isn't the fastest of all time. When Nolan Ryan played, pitches weren't clocked until they were 10 feet from the plate. So with the proper adjustments, if thrown today, Ryan's 100.9 mph pitch (in the 9th inning) in 1974 would've clocked at about 108.5 mph.

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RQda TIL on new years eve in 2010, restaurateur Ted Balestreri offered to open a bottle of 1870 Lafite Rothschild, one of the rarest wines in the world, for former CIA director Leon Panetta if he captured Osama Bin Laden. Five months later, Osama Bin Laden was captured and the bottle of wine was opened.
mMJR TIL there was only one Australian Aboriginal pilot in WWII nicknamed “The Black Magic” who after his service, lived the rest of his days in housing projects as a sheep shearer.
kV57 TIL Philosopher AJ Ayer, age 77, prevented Mike Tyson, age 21, from raping model Naomi Campbell. Tyson: “I’m the heavyweight champion of the world.” Ayer: “I am a Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field; I suggest we talk about this like rational men.” Ayer and Tyson began talking.
69owl Today I learned that during the Paria delta p incident that did happen on February 2022, the five commercial divers were sucked into the 30’’ pipeline at a mean velocity of about 3,3 m/s (10.8 ft/s) and stopped sliding when they were at about 200 m (656 ft) from the riser elbow.
0wx1v TIL that one of the top security experts at the FBI, Frank Abagnale, was also one of the most successful con-mans of all time. He posed as a pilot to travel for free on over 250 flights to 25 countries aged between 16-18, and had scammed his father out of $28k (adjusted for inflation) aged just 15.