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TIL legendary basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an avid Holmesian and authored his own stories based on Mycroft Holmes in prose and comic mediums

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4kVQ6 TIL, when Disneyland opened in 1955, the cost of admission was $1 (which is $11 adjusted for inflation in 2022)
7raLX TIL that between the years of 1995 and 2003 the mayor of Bogotá, Columbia hired mimes to ridicule traffic violators in the streets in an effort to reduce chaotic driving. Traffic fatalities decreased 50% as a result.
yQ6VJ TIL the hand holding the rose for the "American Beauty" movie poster belongs to Christina Hendricks
km8d TIL that Ariane 5, a $7 Billion rocket crashed just due to a simple integer overflow (16-bit instead of 64-bit) , setting back European Space Agency by $400 Million and 4 years.
4k0rb TIL in 1973, illusionist Uri Geller, famous for spoon bending acts, tricked the CIA into believing he had psychic powers. During classified experiments at Stanford Research Institute, he replicated hidden drawings convincingly using stage magic.