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

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LLG9 TIL that in 1964, a man placed himself in a box and had himself air-freighted from London to Australia because he couldn’t afford the airfare. He nearly died of dehydration.
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