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TIL The average lifespan of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches ⚾️

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YxbW TIL in 2013 a flight from LA to NYC was diverted to Kansas City because a passenger refused to stop singing “I Will Always Love You”. She was forcibly removed from the plane.
o9OE TIL a man was only sentenced to five years probation for killing the man who kidnapped and molested his 11-year old son.
16kBP TIL that Peter I of Russia introduced a tax on beards in 1698, to encourage men to shave and look more like European standards at the time. There even was a police force in charge of verifying payment of this tax, which could even forcibly shave people in the street who didn't pay it.
dDylK TIL in 2017, NASA successfully communicated commands 13 billion miles away to Voyager 1 and got it to fire up its thrusters which were not in use since 37 years
xRLb TIL that after 9/11, a commuter train station in New Jersey made chalk marks on the tires of unclaimed cars in the station parking lot to help identify the missing