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TIL Michael Jordan, aka The Chicago Dynamo, was fined $5000 for each game he wore his signature Air Jordans. Nike paid all the fines.

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1aEV4 TIL that kudzu, the horribly invasive species of vine in the American southeast, was imported from Japan in the 1800's.
nW7db TIL that drinking a four-ounce shot of vanilla extract is equivalent to doing four shots of vodka
Jm7j TIL After buying out the McDonalds brothers, Ray Kroc was angry that the deal did not include the original McDonalds so he forced the McDonald brothers to change the name of the establishment (it was changed to the big M) and opened a McDonalds a block away and the put the big M out of business.
a8DAo TIL fish aren’t “real” in the way other life forms are, because they don’t form their own distinctive clade. They are instead “mixed in” the phylogenetic trees of other creatures that cannot be classified as “fish.”
b99GZ TIL of Christian Gerhartsreiter, In 1995 while using the assumed identity "Clark Rockefeller", of the famed Rockefeller family, he married a successful businesswoman with whom he had a daughter