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TIL Samuel L. Jackson Has Bad Motherfucker Engraved On His “Star Wars” Purple Lightsaber

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ANxdd TIL The Walter Knott Built a Brick-by-Brick Replica of Independence Hall - in Buena Park, CA at Knott’s Berry Farm
N71MQ TIL Boris Mikhailov, captain of the USSR hockey team, was offered a $1 million contract to leave Russia in 1980 after the Miracle on Ice. However, he declined as the KGB was standing next to him when the offer was made.
6dYw TIL the sun is a very nearly perfect sphere: its equilateral and polar diameter differ by only 10 km (6.2 Miles)
PY6yV TIL that the evidence that showed the Columbia Space Shuttle was "safe" for re-entry were results using debris 600 times smaller than the one that broke off the Shuttle. This information was "hidden" in plain sight, in a single PowerPoint slide, which may have led to the fatal decision.
9mVm TIL that Emperor Nero competed in the Olympic Games. Nero did terribly and was nearly killed in a chariot race, but was nonetheless declared the winner in every event he competed in.