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TIL that SNL’s Vanessa Bayer was so sick as a child that she and her family got sent to Hawaii by the Make-A-Wish Foundation

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kRDe TIL the Roman Legion, Legio X Macedonia, was in service for 680 years; 43 B.C.-637 A.D.
m1J7P TIL that the controversy over the infamous 1927 Long Count Fight between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey between partially stemmed from the fact that a 1912 law had banned the transportation of boxing movies across state lines, meaning few people could see the footage of it.
PYooV TIL of Diana Trujillo - who despite being a 17 year old immigrant arriving to America with no English skills and only $300 dollars in her pocket - was able to work her way from housekeeper to becoming an aerospace engineer at NASA who helped create the robotic arm for Mars rover Perseverance.
69WnX TIL that boxer Oliver McCall’s actions against opponent Lennox Lewis (including crying, walking around the ring, and refusing to fight) in 1997, that he was deemed mentally ill and sent to a psychiatric ward after the match.
jNDNE TIL there are species of bamboo that can grow an inch every 40 minutes