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TIL that Steven Adams of the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team is the youngest of EIGHTEEN children - many of which are also champion athletes.

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jMpM TIL the most destructive bombing event of WWII was neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki. It was Operation Meetinghouse - The American firebombing of Tokyo.
1amO TIL that the screeching noise you get from scraping your fingernails against a chalkboard is uncomfortable because it is similar to a primate warning call and triggers a fight or flight response.
N7QXe TIL The longest walk around the world was completed by a former neon-sign salesman, Jean Beliveau. He walked 46,600 miles around 64 countries. The trip took him 11 years.
gMN6D TIL that despite leading the Confederate attack that started the American Civil War, P. G. T. Beauregard later became an advocate for black civil rights and suffrage.
bZvN TIL: In 2004, a study was published showing that retiring to a cruise ship was often as cost effective as retiring to a retirement home and was more effective in providing quality of life