A Fact:
At the 1939 World's Fair, San Francisco Seals catcher Joe Sprinz tried to catch a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 1,200 feet overhead.
Sprinz knew baseball but he hadn't studied physics — he lost five teeth and spent three months in the hospital with a fractured jaw.
A Quote:
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." — Alfred North Whitehead
From Futility Closet:
Sprinz knew baseball but he hadn't studied physics — he lost five teeth and spent three months in the hospital with a fractured jaw.
A Quote:
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." — Alfred North Whitehead
From Futility Closet:
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