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TIL about child bodybuilding and how strong child bodybuilder Giuliano Stroe is.

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MeLjB TIL On June 8, 1978, Larry Bird signed a five-year, $3.25 million contract with the Boston Celtics making him the highest-paid rookie in sports history at the time.
DQOYv TIL about hikikomori, young Japanese people who take refuge from society by refusing to leave their bedrooms, the word translates as “to withdraw from society “. They are called The Missing Million.
d81ar TIL the largest print photograph ever was created by using an airplane hangar as a pinhole camera. The finished print was more than 3,500 sq. feet
vwbB TIL “A butt load” actually equals 108 gallons.
8aVRP TIL about Leo Marks, WW2 cryptographer, who was given a 20 minute training exercise on his first day at work which took him the whole day to complete. He had accidentally not been given the cipher key and ended up breaking a code that was meant to be secure.