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TIL that no Major League Baseball player has ever worn the number 86 or 89. Every other number between 0-99 has been worn by at least one player

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W7NXd TIL An oil drilling operation at Lake Peigneur, Louisiana accidentally punctured a salt dome, creating a sinkhole that swallowed barges and caused the Delcambre Canal to flow backwards.
EO9o TIL that Duck Commander, the company owned by the Duck Dynasty family, has an “F” Better Business Bureau rating.
Ookb4 TIL: The US Navy uses a fuel for some torpedoes called Otto Fuel II. It is highly toxic and on the EPA's National Priorities List. If exposed you can have chest pain and tachycardia years later.
XmXQ TIL Augustin Mouchot, a French math teacher, was a 19th-century inventor of the earliest solar-powered engine. It converted solar energy into mechanical steam power. In 1878 he showcased his solar-powered concentrator at the Exposition Universelle in Paris & took home the gold medal from the fair.
GDA1 TIL that radiotrophic fungi exist which can transform gamma radiation into chemical energy. They were found inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant.