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TIL that babies don’t have knee caps and they don’t fully develop until around 10 years

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5b7B TIL a female minor league pitcher struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gerhig back-to-back in 1928. Her contract was voided; in 1952 MLB officially banned women, which was not rescinded until 1992.
QplL TIL in the 50s a white man disguised himself as a black man and traveled to some of the most racially segregated parts of America. He found blatant acts of racism almost everywhere he went, and published a book about his experiences called Black Like Me.
gMD1y TIL since record keeping began in 1915 fifteen people have been killed during the annual Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
1adr8 TIL before switching to satellite radio, Howard Stern was the most fined radio host by the FCC, racking up over $2.5M in fines for indecent language.
4k9pJ TIL Aristotle wrote the heart has only three chambers, and that tiny organisms can be generated spontaneously out of inanimate matter. It is now known that the left atrium is very difficult to observe and took Louis Pasteur to prove that growth doesn't happen in a container without micro-organisms