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TIL Michael Jordan had a “love of the game” clause in his contract, allowing him to play basketball against anyone, anytime and anywhere.

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0d9e5 TIL that not only autistic people have problems with social etiquette, allistic people (non-autistic) tend to avoid engage in social interaction with them.
XEOYE TIL in 2006 a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches. When passengers alerted crew they could smell burning the flight made an emergency landing and the FBI were called in to conduct an investigation
LQwBV TIL sending your parents to a senior home significantly shortens their life-span "When you put an older parent in a retirement home, their life expectancy drops between two and six years." - Dan Buettner
DQmRp TIL GPS was opened up for public use in 1983 by Ronald Reagan following a Korean Airlines flight being shot down after wandering into Soviet airspace
oWyL TIL there’s a a fake bomb detector produced in the UK that has been sold to 20 countries in the Middle East and Far East, including Iraq and Afghanistan, for as much as $60,000 per unit. The fake bomb detector is still in use by police and army in those countries.