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TIL for an entire season Michael Jordan would bet Scottie Pippen on the Jumbotron races during timeouts (but MJ would have the scoreboard operator tell him the outcome ahead of time).

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JnYj TIL there is a monument in Georgia with an instruction to genocide, with an unmarked time capsule, and no one knows who erected it in 1979.
wo0AY TIL about post-micturition convulsion syndrome (PMCS), also known as ‘piss shivers,’ the shivering some people feel during and after urinating. It happens equally to men and women. The current theory is that it is caused by the autonomic nervous system getting its signals crossed.
Y7G7 TIL a caretaker in China licked a rare monkey’s anus for an hour in order to save it’s life.
X0OEX TIL a scientific study have proven that people who work in well-ventilated offices with below-average levels of pollutants and carbon dioxide have significantly higher (+61%) cognitive functioning scores—in crucial areas—than those who work in offices with typical levels
9Yr8p TIL about the "Immovable Ladder" which has sat on a wall of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem since at least 1728. It cannot be permanently moved without the agreement of six different Christian denominations, which has never been achieved.