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TIL Vince Carter was traded by the Golden State Warriors twice and traded for Chris Webber twice before ever playing a game in the NBA.

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9nbD TIL that “traska” is a word in Swedish meaning “when you pay for everyone’s beers at the bar and leave without mentioning it”.
LQE6Z TIL: The Master Printers of Koryo predate the Gutenburg press with the oldest woodblock dating to 751 AD. However due to repeated wars, countless woodblocks were destroyed due to invaders. In addition, supply constraints, an abundance of booze, scarcity of wood, etc led to slow public adoption.
LQd6v TIL Rodger Young, despite being deaf and nearly blind (due to a head injury) and the shortest soldier in his company, won the Medal of Honor for singlehandedly destroying a Japanese machine gun nest (at the cost of his life) in WWII
7rB07 TIL about Resin Canal Discolouration. While the fruit is still safe to eat, a bacteria causes the discolouration of the canals in the flesh of the mango.
XN7E TIL that Serbo-Croatian is a language comprising of four mutually intelligible variants and is the official language of 5 countries. It has 5 different names (not related to the countries) and can be written in both Latin and Cryllic script.