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DDOD TIL, due to debilitating back injuries, to get through his final season Larry Bird would spend every minute not playing basketball in a full body cast. When he finally retired at the end of the year, he took the cast out behind his house and blew it to pieces with a shotgun.
b6mK9 TIL Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, a French entomologist, living in Medford, Mass. in the late 1800s, decided to create a cross-breed of caterpillars from native North American moths and European caterpillars Lymantria dispar, in order to start a competitive silk industry. (rest of the story in comment)
GK47 TIL In 2008, a 30 second Doritos television advertisement was beamed by radar to a solar system 42 lightyears away.
rNaow TIL about ''The strongest man in the world'' Croatian Marijan Matijević who pulled two cargo ships with his hands through New York harbour and prevented an airplane from taking off by holding it with a rope. He helped Nikola Tesla when he needed funding and was known for various humanitarian acts.
YpddZ TIL that according to an MI5 agent who infiltrated the Provisional IRA, Irish Republican chiefs couldn’t bring themselves to attack targets in Scotland during the Troubles because they viewed them as “Celtic cousins”