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TIL that if you dug a hole anywhere in the united states through the center of the Earth, you'd end up in the Indian/Arctic ocean

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aGWM TIL after Sports Illustrated published its “Bag It, Michael” cover story about his lackluster baseball career in 1994, Michael Jordan cut off all official communication with the magazine, even to this day
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