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TIL Fire Stations are Being Built as Traditional Houses in Some Neighborhoods

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0BMv TIL Bob Feller pitched a game against the White Sox on Mother’s Day 1939 with his family in attendance. One of his pitches was fouled off into the seats, into the face of his own mother right above the right eye, resulting in her needing seven stitches. Feller went on to win the game.
R7bK9 TIL in 532 AD 30,000 rioters were killed and half of Constantinople was destroyed in the Nika Riots, over a conflict with chariot racing.
wo6xo TIL that the power density in the Solar core is about 276.5watts/m3, less than the power density produced by the metabolism of an adult human.
69l9w TIL during the Napoleonic wars Sicily was occupied and made a protectorate by the UK, the British ultimately aimed at annexing the Island as a 5th kingdom to their union but they had to renounce this plan after the fall of Napoleon due to Russian and French pressure.
6Dyl TIL Robert Noyce passed up being the worlds first trillionaire by making his patent on silicon chips public domain. Thus allowing technological innovation leading to modern day electronics.