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TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabber has written Sherlock Holmes novels and an episode of Veronica Mars

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m14KO TIL a Polish charity placed a tracker on the back of a white stork to track the birds migratory habits. It travelled to Sudan before the charity lost contact. Somebody found the tracker, removed the sim card and put it in their own phone, where they then racked up $2700 worth of phone calls.
MJB8 TIL Donald Trump tried to sue an author for $5 billion for calling him a millionaire instead of a billionaire.
pY98 TIL there’s one special ops unit in the world, that never lost a man in action
XELR TIL that in 1961, only 10% of physicians thought it was correct to tell a patient about a fatal cancer diagnosis
M6vV TIL firefighters in Tennessee let a house burn because the homeowners didn’t pay a “$75 fire subscription fee”