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TIL that in 1894 ham and cheese sandwiches were the only food sold in New York baseball parks; frankfurters weren't introduced until 1909.

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PYp6n Today I learned about Lychrel numbers. A Lychrel number is a natural number that cannot form a palindrome through the iterative process of repeatedly reversing its digits and adding the resulting numbers. For example 57+75 = 132, 132+231 = 363, a palindrome. There is no known sequence for 196
e4Z4 TIL a Catholic bishop named Robert Grosseteste described the birth of the Universe in an explosion and the crystallization of matter to form stars and planets in a set of nested spheres around Earth in 1225 AD - 4 centuries before Newton proposed gravity and 7 centuries before the Big Bang theory.
e9l5 TIL Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was named for explorer of the Pacific, Captain Cook and that the title of the pilot episode was an homage to one of Cook’s diary entries: “ambition leads me … farther than any other man has been before me”
9YPZ6 TIL The dimples on a golf ball allow it to travel up to twice the distance of a smooth ball. The dimples increase lift and decrease drag
LQWnP TIL the word Snafu started off as a military acronym for the phrase Status Nominal: All Fouled Up. The military acronym started in the 1940s and was meant to highlight situational messes on missions. The term has since graduated to accepted slang.