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TIL about pro basketball player Slobodan Janković, who accidentally paralyzed himself during a game after fouling out and angrily headbutting a concrete support behind the backboard

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R7eO1 TIL about Bertha Lutz, a Brazilian zoologist who specializes in studying poisson dart frogs that was also a leading figure in the Pan American feminist movement who signed the UN Charter for Brazil and where she also fought for women’s suffrage.
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