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TIL That there's a specific brand of mud that's been rubbed on every baseball ever pitched in the MLB since the 1950s

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p8LeQ TIL That the original Wiggles reunited for a charity concert in 2020 and Greg Page, the original yellow Wiggle, suffered cardiac arrest on stage, stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated with the defibrillator.
GYggJ TIL Human saliva contains a chemical compound called Opiorphin, a painkiller six times more powerful than Morphine.
RlPj TIL that the publishers of the game ‘Advent Rising’ originally offered $1,000,000 to the first person to find all hidden symbols within the game, but then had to change it to 'copies of several of its games’ due to issues with Xbox Live.
nexjr TIL To make sure that their meat cooked evenly, early chefs had "Turnspit" dogs run in a hamster wheel connected to a skewer, which rotated the meat. Only one stuffed Turnspit dog remains, and his name is Whiskey.
b9Bba TIL that the human species is the only one with the ability to accurately throw objects