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TIL after finishing the 2012 Olympics as the most successful swimmer of the meet for the third Olympics in a row, Michael Phelps contemplated suicide

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4XAwX TIL that Dodo birds didn't die of extinction on Mauritius because the Portuguese ate them. The Dutch arrived later and brought pigs to the island which ate the Dodo eggs out of their nests. Dodo birds kept their nests on the ground because there weren't any predators before.
e0Ad6 TIL when George Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot dead his father commented "I am not surprised at all. I've expected it for quite some time." The party claimed the body over the parents, but when they wore swastikas at the funeral, the state cremated his body instead.
XEYj8 TIL that Ancient Greek slingers used to write "ΔΕΞΑΙ" (Dexai) meaning "take that" or "catch" on their lead sling bullets; soldiers have been writing sarcastic taunts on their weapons forever
yVVgM TIL that TIME Magazine's Person of the Century online poll resulted in the top spots going to Jesus Christ and Ric Flair, neither of which were considered eligible.
b6RE4 TIL that there was a Ferris Bueller TV show that ran for one season in 1990 and starred Jennifer Aniston