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TIL that the longest professional baseball game ever lasted 33 innings and over 8 hours. Players became delirious with exhaustion, it got so cold that people burned bats to keep warm, and the president of the league stopped the game at 4 a.m. The final score was 3-2 after play resumed a month later.

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