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Quoted from LTG:There are 9 ways to reach first base in baseball.
LTG : )
Ok let me try:
Hit
Walk
Hit by pitch
Error
Dropped third strike
Catcher’s interference
Fielder’s choice
Infield fly rule?
Balk?
Fielder’s interference?
Ok those last three were guesses....
Quoted from BillySastard:Neither one of these two. The batter is out on an infield fly, and a balk doesn't affect the batter.
My guess is batted ball hits another runner before a fielder touches it. I believe you got the rest of them.
Yeah those didn’t sound right to me either (and on second thought the infield fly rule was a pretty bad guess). I think you might be right about the runner touching a batted ball....in that case I think the runner is out and the batter is awarded first base.
Ok here is another sports fact....
In the storied history of the Montreal Forum, the Stanley cup was awarded many times, but only once to a non-Montreal team (Calgary Flames in 1989). That still pinches cuz I was there 
Quoted from flipout:I WAS BORN ON THIRD BASE
Gee, I thought you hit a triple!
Quoted from gliebig:Interesting fact...
JJP made two RR WOZ's numbered 1939.
....that we know about, so far. WOZGATE!!
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Quoted from jibmums:Except for Schrödinger's potato, which is both a potato and not a potato at the same time.
There’s this guy, Heisenberg.... he’s no so sure.
1 year later
If there was a rope going all the way around the Earth at the equator snug to the surface, and you wanted to raise up the rope so it was one foot above the equator all the way around, you would only need about 6.3 feet of extra rope.
What’s more, that’s the same amount of rope you’d need if you did the same thing with a basketball, or any other sphere.
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Quoted from DanQverymuch:52!
52 factorial, the number of different ways a deck of 52 cards can wind up shuffled, is a big number, right? Way(!) short of a googol, never mind a googolplex, but still pretty incomprehensible.
Suppose you set a timer to count down 52! seconds (that's roughly 8.0658x10^67 seconds).
Now, stand on the equator, and take a step forward every billion years. (Don't worry, it's just a thought experiment.)
When you've circled the Earth once, take a drop of water from the Pacific Ocean, and keep going with the one step per billion years...
When the Pacific Ocean is empty, lay a sheet of paper down, refill the ocean and start over.
When your stack of paper reaches the sun, take a look at the timer.
The 3 left-most digits won't have changed. 8.063x10^67 seconds left to go. Repeat the whole process 1000 times to get 1/3 of the way through that time, with still 5.385x10^67 seconds left to go.
This is getting old, right? So now for a change of pace, start doing this instead, to use up the rest of that timer:
Shuffle a deck of cards and deal yourself 5 cards every billion years.
Each time you get a royal flush, buy a lottery ticket.
Each time that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand in the Grand Canyon.
When the Grand Canyon's full, take one ounce of rock off Mount Everest, empty the canyon and carry on dealing for Royal Flushes once per billion years.
When Everest has been levelled, check the timer.
There's barely any change. 5.364x10^67 seconds left. You'll have to repeat this process 256 times to run out the timer.
Hard to believe such a big number lurks in that innocent looking deck of playing cards!
This is a paraphrasing of a blog entry I ran across a while ago and I just noticed I left it unfinished in the draft buffer. Too good to just clear, so I finished cleaning it up.
To see the longer original or if you're curious about some of the assumptions made:
https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
Yeah, this is a mind blowing number! Take a deck of cards and give it a good shuffle. Congratulations, you can now say with almost (statistical) certainty that exact sequence of cards has NEVER been shuffled in all the decks of cards ever shuffled throughout history.
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