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TIL in 1979 basketball legend Magic Johnson turned down an endorsement deal with Nike offering him 100,000 shares of stock and $1 for every pair of shoes sold in favor of a deal with Converse that paid him $100,000 annually. In declining the Nike deal Johnson missed out on over $5 billion.

9wMnB TIL that one cubic centimeter of the human body has a higher energy output then one cubic centimeter of the sun.
6RVQ TIL that the average age of NASA engineers at the time of Apollo 11 was 28. Nowadays it’s 47
0d1dp TIL that Chris Farley’s cousin is now the CEO of Ford
rlLM TIL of the Solomon curve. The safest speed to travel at is five miles over the speed limit.
wZbM TIL that Casa Bonita is a real restaurant in Denver