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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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7O1b TIL a chimpanzee that was socialized to humans since birth could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch television using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner’s horses, water plants and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
gM6GA TIL according to a 2011 study published in the International Journal of Impotence Research, eating 100 grams of pistachios at lunch every day for three weeks led to increased blood flow to “the problem area,” leading to a significant decrease in erectile dysfunction.
7r8XX TIL the 1940 Winter Olympics were originally given to Japan. They declined the games due to the start of the Sino-Japanese War. Eventually they were awarded to Germany. Three months later, Germany invaded Poland. The games were canceled altogether.
QNZxp TIL in 2016 Ryan Reynolds surprised terminally-ill cancer patient & Deadpool Superfan Connor McGrath with the 1st screening of Deadpool in his hospital room. Ryan called him "the funniest, potty-mouthed Canadian mercenary I've ever met" and they became friends before Connor sadly passed weeks later
LQbxr TIL about Ashrita Furman, a New York native who holds the Guinness World Record for the most Guinness World Records. He began breaking records in 1979 and has set over 600 records as of 2017.