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TIL - Ken Jeong from the Hangover (movie) and the Community (TV) graduated high school at 16 and medical school at 24.

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vPvj7 TIL that the country Singapore was named by a Tamil Indian king in the 11th century, and is an amalgam of the words "Singh" and "pura" meaning "Lion City"
QJ4mk TIL the phrase 'pulling out all the stops', meaning to use all the resources or force at one's disposal, comes from organ-playing, where it means to literally pull out every knob to play all the pipes at once, thereby creating the fullest possible sound.
wP4Y TIL that the the ‘zero’ was invented by an Indian mathematician Aryabhata
xVge1 TIL the first 'light gun' game wasn't Duck Hunt on NES but Ray-O-Lite developed in 1936
R7Nw7 TIL that the first non-white person in the NBA was Wataru Misaka a 5’7” Japanese-American point guard. Drafted in 1947, he’s still alive and turns 95 today!