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TIL The longest pro baseball game ever was a AAA game that took 33 innings, took 8 1/2 hours to complete, had future Hall of Famers Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken Jr. playing, set 12 records, and had the final inning resumed months later to much fanfare only to end after 18 minutes.

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J18dm TIL about Aleksander Doba. At the age of 65, he kayaked from Senegal to Brazil across the Atlantic Ocean in a kayak without a sail, relying only on a paddle and his muscles. The voyage took 99 days and spanned 5394 kilometers.
wonPY TIL Benedetta Carlini, the 17th century nun known for being charged by the inquisition for having sex with a fellow nun while "being possesed by a demon", was also a mystic. She would fall in a trance state, speak in tongues and suffered from stigmata. She also married Jesus in an official ceremony
xVrV0 TIL there are actually two measurements called the 'foot' in the US - the 'international foot' (.3048 meters) and the 'US survey foot' (1200/3937 meters). One international foot is approximately .999998 US Survey feet.
GYXpE TIL: 14-year-old Roman Emperor Elagabalus was a cross-dressing, sex-obsessed torture fiend who may have invented the whoopee cushion. He loosed venomous snakes into gladiatorial crowds and released his pet lions and leopards into banquet halls or the bed chambers of his guests.
6oom TIL: Lollipops are distributed outside nightclubs to reduce late night rowdiness as revellers will not be able to shout or cause a disturbance while sucking on them.