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TIL the main character of HBO series “Eastbound and Down,” Kenny Powers, was inspired by baseball bad-boy John Rocker, a highly controversial Atlanta Braves pitcher from the early 2000’s

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mx0DM TIL Usain Bolt suffered from scoliosis when he was younger and has an asymmetrical stride when he runs because his legs are slightly different lengths. Researchers aren’t sure if this lack of symmetry is a personal mechanical optimization by Bolt that makes him the fastest human or not.
94pm TIL that Miley Cyrus’s first job was to pick up the bras and the underwear that her dad’s fans (country singer Billy Ray) threw on the stage. She got paid $10 for it.
8aGA4 TIL that Mao Zedong ordered mass genocide of Sparrows which caused the ecological imbalance as pests and bugs increased rapidly which resulted in less produce which further caused Great Chinese Famine which killed 20-45 million people due to starvation.
69oOZ TIL that eating two medium-sized mushrooms a day reduces the risk of cancer by as much as 45%
D10DD TIL: with regards to health, obesity is a far more widespread threat than malnutrition.