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TIL Michael Jordan’s dad, James Jordan was murdered by a man wearing a Michael Jordan t-shirt.

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xNK1 TIL Henry Ford once refused to pay $10,000 to General Electric for fixing a generator problem and asked for an itemized bill. The engineer from the job, Charles Steinmetz, sent this: “Making chalk mark on generator, $1. Knowing where to make mark, $9,999.” Ford ended up paying the bill.
ADV9B TIL: In May of 2012, a U.S. nuclear sub was damaged beyond repair by fire. Investigators eventually discovered that a sailor had set the fire to "get out of work early." He was sentenced to 17 years in prison and ordered to pay $400 million to replace the sub.
m1mjM TIL the monarch butterfly population has declined 85% in two decades. The western population has suffered a 99% decline. Monarchs are threatened by pesticides — including toxic neonicotinoids and herbicides, which are killing off the milkweed plants they need to survive.
KORka TIL Though Dreamworks won't comment, many believe that Shrek was inspired by a French wrestler from the 1930s and '40s named Maurice Tillet.
bop9 TIL of Shin Dong-hyuk, a man who escaped the North Korean Concentration Camp he was born and raised in.