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TIL Jerry West was a 10-time 1st Team All-NBA member, making him the only player in league history to make that many All-NBA 1st Teams without taking home at least one league MVP award, he was runner-up a record four times.

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OPd7 TIL feral goats on the Galapagos Islands were eradicated by attaching a radio location collar to a “Judas” goat. When it returned to the herd all goats were shot except the Judas goat. When it relocated to another herd the process was repeated until only the Judas goat remained, which was then shot.
4XKgb TIL the 1965 film ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so Historically Inaccurate, That President Eisenhower Came Out of Retirement & Held a Press Conference Just to Denounce the Film.
W7NPY TIL of the Tlatelolco massacre, a student protest that led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of people being injured, after the mexican government had snipers firing at the Mexican Armed Forces to make it appear the protest had turned violent and justify the massacre
4kAZ6 TIL all Marbled Crayfish are genetically identical, reproducing asexually. It is the only known decapod to do this. They have no known natural population and their origin is unknown, first appearing in German pet stores in 1995
oBxvo TIL a part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani, a muscle within the ear. Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound