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TIL Kobe Bryant is the only person to have won both an Olympic medal and an Oscar

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1ajPV TIL that between 1950 to 1970, The Scottish government coerced about 60,000 Scottish mothers into giving up their children simply because they were unmarried. The children were given up for adoption.
5yo9 TIL the blue dye in M&Ms has been found to reduce spinal injury in rats, with the unfortunate side effect of temporarily turning them blue.
k5A7 TIL >50% of sloth deaths occur on their once a week trip to the ground to dig a hole and defecate
5orD TIL that Slash and Betty White did a commercial together where they look at toads
nW49d TIL that during the 1956 Hungarian revolution, British embassy staff, with the aid of Hungarian revolutionaries, were able to capture an abandoned Soviet T-54 tank and keep it in the British embassy long enough for British engineers to study the tank and determine its strength and weaknesses.