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TIL NASA Wants to Send a Submarine to Titan

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R78DQ TIL Basketball Player Tim Duncan was almost an Olympic level swimmer but had to quit due to Hurricane Hugo destroying his practice pool forcing him to practice in the Ocean, he quit soon after due to his fear of sharks
OG7Vg TIL that athletes and couch potatoes burn the same number of calories
M7wZV TIL the film "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946) was based on a book called "The Greatest Gift", which itself was based on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
RODa TIL of Julie D'Aubigny, a 17th Century swordswoman and opera singer who frequently cross-dressed, killed a man in an illegal duel and rescued her lesbian lover from a convent by burning it down
R7p94 TIL that Søren Kierkegaard, considered to be the first existentialist, wrote his early works under various pseudonyms and all had complex dialogue with each other, allowing him to present several distinct viewpoints.