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TIL in 1991 a woman Michael Jordan had an ongoing affair with told him that she was pregnant with his kid. Multiple paternity tests proved this was false, but he paid her $250K to keep their relationship private. In 2003 her lawsuit against him that claimed he had agreed to pay her $5m was dismissed

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5Pw9 TIL There was a con artist who was so good, he sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.
VBX9k TIL that in the late 1800s, pharmaceutical company Bayer was trying to find a safer version of their popular cold medicine, morphine. This accidentally resulted in the creation and marketing of one of the most addictive and dangerous drugs, diacetylmorphine, commonly know today as “heroin”
w1gM TIL that men who perform poorly at video games are more likely to make sexist comments about female gamers than successful male gamers.
kO4J4 TIL of the Oh-My-God particle, recorded in 1991 over Utah traveling 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light -The tiny particle had the kinetic energy of a 58 mph baseball (or 100 quintillion times the photon energy of visible light)
YpmMW TIL Female kangaroos clean their pouches by licking them out. “She is able to push her long snout in to clean it effectively, removing the urine and feces of the young joey by using her tongue,”