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TIL that the Mets once signed a pitcher who could throw 160+ mph

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oRnRK TIL that the time period in which dinosaurs lived is so vast, there were dinosaur fossils when dinosaurs were still alive.
v1x7r TIL of the Edelweiss Pirates. A proto-hippie youth group in Germany which fought Nazi's as they frolicked through the countryside playing guitars and singing Anti-Nazi folk songs at campfires. They sheltered escaped concentration-camp prisoners and Allied soldiers in a program of armed resistance.
W0bL TIL that Wladimir Klitschko auctioned off his 1996 Olympic gold medal in March 2012 for charity. The buyer payed $1 million but immediatly returned it because he wanted it to stay in the family.
R57B7 TIL that when natural gas producers have a surplus, they can pump it into massive underground salt caverns for storage, some 6,000 feet underground.
Y7ZgA TIL Hitler suffered from right-side cryptorchidism which means he really had one ball