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TIL Michael Jordan returned to the NBA in 2001 and pledged to donate his salary to the relief efforts for the victims of 9/11

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R50k9 TIL the FAA predicted that if kids under 2 years old were required to have their own seats on planes, at least 60 kids would die in car accidents for every kid saved because families that couldn't afford extra plane tickets would drive instead.
Bg4eL TIL about Gurkhas, they are legendary warriors from Nepal who do not fear death. They have also served in the British army for over 200 years, winning the highest military honour, the Victoria Cross 26 times.
VMWOk TIL that graves became 6 feet deep as a result of the plague in 1665.
0w7Rp TIL the stadion, formerly also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, based on the circumference of a typical sports stadium of the time; showing how we're not the first to measure some things in football fields.
4XvEo TIL that Dexter Holland, lead singer of Offspring, was valedictorian of his school and had a masters in molecular biology before the band became famous. He since earned his PhD and published a paper on the use of computational molecular biological approaches to identify microRNA sequences in HIV