1. It seems like MLB has seen a LOT of baseball players over the years, but the total is smaller than you might think.
As of yesterday, in 147 years of baseball history, there have been a total of 20,459 Major League ballplayers. That includes everyone who played for decades . . . down to those who just appeared in ONE GAME.
For comparison, the smallest MLB baseball stadium is Tropicana Field . . . home of the Tampa Bay Rays. It has a capacity of around 25,000 . . . meaning EVERY player who’s ever made the Majors could fit inside, and it still wouldn’t sell-out.
2. President Millard Fillmore wound up marrying his high school teacher. It’s not as bad as it sounds, though . . . he was 19 when she was his teacher, she was 20.
3. The first Mickey Mouse cartoon was “Steamboat Willie”, and it was shown before a gangster movie called “Gang War” in 1928.
4. When Sarah Michelle Gellar was five, she did a Burger King commercial that made fun of McDonald’s hamburgers. So McDonald’s sued Burger King, named her in the lawsuit, and she was banned from going to McDonald’s as a kid.
5. Freeze dried “astronaut ice cream” was never actually eaten by astronauts on any mission. It WAS developed for NASA, but never made it to space.
