User:Djrobgordon/sandbox/Did you know


 * Added together, Mordecai Brown, Jim Abbott, and Antonio Alfonseca have twenty-five fingers.
 * There are twenty-five men on a Major League team's active roster.
 * From September 1 until the season's end, Major League rosters expand to forty players. Interestingly, none of the aforementioned men grow corresponding fingers.
 * The liver is the only human organ that can regenerate itself. The salamander can regenerate entire limbs.
 * Cirrhosis of the liver is caused in part by the replacement of liver tissue with regenerative nodules. The disorder was a contributing factor in the deaths of Hall of Fame members Mickey Mantle, Hack Wilson, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.
 * Mordecai Brown died of complications from diabetes. If left untreated, the disease can result  in the amputation of limbs.  Brown, however, lost his fingers in an accident with a piece of farm machinery.