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TIL Wilt Chamberlain is the reason players have to stay behind the foul line when shooting a free throw. While at KU, thanks to his 7’ height, 7’8” wingspan, and 50” vertical, he would start from top of the key, leap before the foul line, and dunk the ball before he touched the ground in the lane.

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X06PD TIL right to private copying allows in Switzerland to download music, films and e-books through a tax on all storage media. (Art. 19 Abs. 1 lit. a URG). Copy protection can be removed from purchased software (Art. 39a Abs. 4 URG). File sharing and commercial use are illegal.
Roww TIL that dentures were made possible by the murder of a patent troll.
QbRe TIL of Primitive Baptist Universalists, a branch of Baptists found in Appalachia known as “No Hellers” due “to their belief that Hell is actually experienced in this lifetime”.
9Y166 TIL Mongolians were afraid of Lightning. And they thought eating animals that were killed by lighting had bad JUJU
gM9Z8 TIL Marlon Wayans was cast as Robin in the 1992 film "Batman Returns" and still receives income from the film despite his character getting cut from the script