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Til: Gaylord Perry, a Major League Baseball played with the giants for 7 years and never hit a home run. The giants manager joked with reporters saying, “They’ll put a man on the moon before Perry hits a home run.” On July 20, 1969, Gaylord Perry hit a home run

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wxnW TIL evidence shows that the space shuttle Challenger’s crew survived the explosion and could have been conscious until the crew cabin hit the ocean. 4 of 5 recovered crew air packs had been activated and pilot switches that could only have been moved manually by a person were moved.
9wWJB TIL Theologian and paleontology pioneer William Buckland conducted the first ever reconstructions of prehistoric food chains by studying fossilised feces. Through observation alone he figured out the diet habits and anatomy of species like the ichthyosaur
E1QDo TIL: Hank Williams was late on his way to a show when he died in the car with a friend. When Williams' death was announced, the crowd started laughing, thinking it was excuse. After Hawkshaw Hawkins started singing "I Saw The Light" as a tribute, the crowd realized Williams was dead, and sang along.
78gLM TIL about The Horseman's Word, a secret society of British horse owners who claimed to practise secret invocations that could give them magical control over horses and women. Initiates would brandish knotted horse-hair and read passages from the Bible backwards before "shaking hands with the devil"
wLJwP TIL that although Nolan Ryan holds 51 Major League Baseball records including most no-hitters thrown, most strikeouts, and the lowest batting average allowed over a career, he never won the Cy Young Award.