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wL5pM TIL only 20 slam dunks have been made in WNBA history, and 13 of them were made by a single player—Brittney Griner.
8eY5Z TIL about Pearl Curran, an early 20th-century American novelist and poet who claimed all her work was channeled through the spirit of a long-deceased Englishwoman named Patience Worth.
9wZWr TIL in 1996, some characters were changed on the children's literacy program "The Letter People". Instead of vowels being all female characters and consonants being all male characters, a change was made to make half the letters male and half of them female. Junk food references were also replaced.
45BJ TIL London is one of the most surveilled cities on the planet, with 51,000 CCTV cameras. On average, a Londoner is captured on camera 300 times a day. The other cities with the most cameras are Beijing, Chicago, New York and Chongqing, China.
E1aEo TIL that the cottage where Ulysses Grant finished his memoirs is now an historic monument and is kept how it was when he died. On his desk is a large bottle of liquid cocaine. Park rangers check it annually to make sure it is all there.