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TIL: About Bobby Guldan, an MLB player that was traded from the New York Yankees to the Seattle Mariners, for himself. One of a handful of players traded for themselves due to the 'player to be named later clause'

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j6G5E TIL the longest range gunnery hit in naval combat is 26,000 yards, shared between HMS Warspite against Giulio Cesare in July 1940 and Scharnhorst against HMS Glorious a month before.
Br11e TIL in 1913 Milunka Savić joined the Serbian army in her brother’s place-cutting her hair and donning men’s clothes. According to a Serbian source, she may be the most-decorated female combatant in the entire history of warfare.
rRlwW TIL about Donny the Doberman, a gifted dog, that has been shown arranging some of his 80 plush toys into evenly spaced triangles and lines, and chooses to use, for example, only stuffed frogs or monkeys for a particular design, completely of his own accord.
l7OdN TIL in 2007 a Cherokee council voted 'overwhelmingly' to strip 2,800 people of tribal citizenship, defining citizenship as 'by blood'. After a judgment in 2017 the Tribe began accepting and processing applications for citizenship for the descendents of Freedmen.
y46w Today I learned that, according to the Beer Price Index, the cheapest city in the world for beer is Krakow, Poland.