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Only one major league ballplayer has been fatally injured during a game. Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was killed when struck in the head by a pitch on August 16, 1920

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A sea squirt digests its own brain. It spends the early portion of its life as tadpole-like creature. It then permanently attaches itself to the ocean floor. Since it is stationary from this point on, it has no use for its brain

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A "Panther" is not a real animal. It is a name used to describe cougars, leopards, and jaguars that are black in color

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McDonald's is the second largest buyer of chicken and the largest buyer of beef, pork, and potatoes in the world

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Apple juice (and other fruit juices) has more sugar than Coke

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The Egyptians believed that the heart, not the brain, was the source of human wisdom, memory, emotions, the soul and the personality itself. In fact, the brain was discarded during the mummification process

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In 1958, a nuclear bomb was lost during an aircraft collision during exercise near Savannah, GA. It's whereabouts remain unknown to this day

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Over 1 million soldiers died during that Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. That is roughly the same number of United States combat deaths in all of its wars put together

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Earth is the only place in the our solar system in which a solar eclipse can happen

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The movie "Paranormal Activity" had a production budget of $15,000 but grossed over $193 million, making it the most profitable movie of all-time

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After 18 college football players were killed during games in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt personally intervened and demanded that the rules of the game be reformed to make the game safer. One of the changes was to make the forward pass a legal play

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The words "mafia" and "mob" never appear in The Godfather. Coppola agreed to omit these words after meeting with the Italian-American Civil Rights League

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Hippopotamuses kill more people each year than lions, leopards, and elephants combined

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In the original draft of "Back to the Future", the time machine resembles a refrigerator. The idea was dropped due to a fear that children would imitate the movie and lock themselves in refrigerators