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TIL that the longest professional tennis match was 11 hours and 5 minutes.

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kO7DW TIL: The difference between David Bowie's eyes is caused by Anisocoria ( a condition where the pupils are two different sizes) which developed after Bowie got punched in the eye, in a fight over a girl when he was 15.
EgQwo TIL in 2009, a hard ground ball hit Adrián Beltré in the groin which landed him on the 15-day disabled list. In his first game after returning, teammate Ken Griffey Jr. conspired with those in charge of the PA system to have Beltré's at-bat intro music be the opening march from The Nutcracker Suite.
e8g TIL the “butterflies in your stomach” feeling is from blood being pulled from the stomach and redirected into your muscles.
0wK4N TIL there was a sex cult community called Rajneeshpuram in Oregon back in the 1980s. They had poisoned over 750 people to commit voter fraud and had multiple assassination attempts on the Wasco county officials although none of the assassination succeeded.
KaB4 TIL the Hubble was ridiculed because a mirror was off by less than 1/50th the thickness of a human hair.