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TIL the slam dunk was banned in college basketball for about a decade, from 1967 to 1976, widely believed to lessen the impact of one player Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

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Lvmr TIL astronauts aboard the ISS are growing lettuce to study outer space gardening techniques.
0wKQp TIL that Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire in the 380s, when Emperor Theodosius banned Pagan rituals and holidays, disbanded the Vestal virgins, extinguished the Sacred Fire, destroyed the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and put an end to the Ancient Olympic Games
Aeva TIL that Scrappy-Doo was first added to the cast of Scooby-Doo in 1979 to save the show from cancellation. Although the general consensus is that Scrappy-Doo is horrible, his addition boosted the show’s ratings enough to save it from being cancelled.
KKMw TIL that there were 32 solar panels on the White House, and that Ronald Reagan had them removed.
R5ZG4 TIL In the 1590s, a Spanish admiral made up an entire nation, complete with dozens of fake coats of arms, so that he could claim to be a nobleman and join a fraternity of knights. In doing so, he accidentally popularized the pan-South-Slavic movement, and caused the founding of Yugoslavia in 1918.