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TIL the Padres have signed the same handicapped ball player 20 years in row so he doesn’t lose his health insurance.

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5GZr TIL if Pinocchio were to say “My nose will grow now”, it will create a paradox called the Pinocchio’s paradox.
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yVoEw TIL: In 2021, a 30-year-old Brazilian man was fishing with two friends at a lake in Brazil, when the group was attacked by bees. The man and his friends jumped into the lake to escape the bees, but the Brazilian man drowned and was partially eaten by piranhas; his friends survived.