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TIL That Captain Underpants has twice topped the list of banned books in America

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9lOX TIL that within 5 years of retirement 60% of NBA players go broke. While within 2 years of retirement 78% of NFL players are bankrupt or in financial stress.
mAWp TIL Poon Lim survived 133 days adrift in the Pacific ocean on a 8’ square wooden raft. When rescued he was told no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, he simply replied “I hope no one will ever have to break that record.”
NXB6b TIL that the Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to the expansion of iron in the heat
R5L17 TIL that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the creators of Breakout, the iconic arcade game from the 70s. They built it as a single player evolution of Pong.
E1VZp TIL about the Three-Fifths Compromise, where slaves were counted as 3/5 of a citizen. The Southern states wanted more seats in Congress than they might achieve with only white people, but counting them as equal would be plainly hypocritical, since slaves did no have the rights of free people.