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TIL - Jimmer Ferdette is on the USA Men's 3-on-3 Olympic Basketball team.

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kOL9g TIL Some "grammar-nazis" are actually mentally ill. It's called Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.
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DJbJ TIL in preparation for his role in Fury(2014) Shia LaBeouf joined the US National Guard, got a tattoo that says “Surrender to Jesus”, pulled a tooth out, cut his own face, didn’t bathe for 4 months and spent days watching horses die.
W7vWN TIL An art professor at Syracuse University grafted a single tree that grows forty different types of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and almonds. There are now a handful of these trees in different cities around the US.
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