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TIL in 1983, LA Dodgers pitcher Bob Welch pitched 9 shutout innings and hit a solo home run in a 1-0 win. This is the only time in baseball history this has happened

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GY1bj TIL There was a speech drafted in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the moon. “For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.”
p5dG TIL Sir James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, gave the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital of London upon his death. Barrie’s only condition was that the hospital never disclose the income brought in from royalties.
o8Ko TIL Ancient Egyptians belived that the universe was created due to an ejaculation and Egyptian Pharaohs were required to masturbate ceremonially into the Nile.
0wRoN TIL Membership applications by the UK to join the EU were refused in 1963 and 1967 because the French President of the time Charles de Gaulle doubted the UK’s political will.
LB8Z TIL in 1994 a US Soldier in Germany decapitated his friend and brought the head to his cheating wife in the hospital who was pregnant with the other man’s baby.