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TIL Tim Duncan future hall of famer refused to enter the NBA sacrificing millions, just so he could grant his dead mothers last wish of him graduating and getting a college degree

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79rL TIL that the 2015 price of gasoline in Venezuela was 1/5th of $.01, or 482 gallons with just one dollar.
W7gPA TIL about Emperor Norton I, the only Emperor of the United States of America. He was a San Francisco citizen who declared himself Emperor in 1859, and everyone just went along with it. He was beloved by the people of the city and over 10,000 of them attended his funeral.
gMrnX TIL Mississippi did not ratify the 13th amendment till 2013, after the release of the movie Lincoln.
WkB5A TIL of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, manicurists to the Pharaoh in ~2500BCE, they are considered by some historians to be the first recorded same-sex couple in history
78rXx TIL that a fungus species in Malaysia was named Spongiforma Squarepantsii after its apperance of Spongebob Squarepants.