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TIL that in a three year period from 1977-1980 Magic Johnson’s teams won a high school state championship, an NCAA championship, and an NBA championship. He was also named NBA Finals MVP, and NCAA final four most outstanding player.

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4XZ46 TIL that there is a concept opposite to déjà vu called jamais vu, wherein familiar concepts or situations become seemingly unfamiliar. An example of which is when words sound like jibberish after saying or writing them enough times.
YpQWG TIL a Utah Highway Patrol officer pulled over what he believed to be an impaired driver. It was a 5 year old who had stolen his parents car and made it on to the freeway after an argument with Mom because she wouldn't buy him a Lamborghini. He was on his way to California with $3 to purchase one.
QJ6Re TIL about Kevin Briggs also known as the "Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge", a police officer who saved more than 200 people from jumping while being himself depressed.
NXjEJ TIL in 2003 £4 million of stolen artwork from the Whitworth Art Gallery (by Picasso, Gauguin & Van Gogh) was recovered in a cardboard tube next to a public toilet after an anonymous tip-off. Also in the tube was a note that read "the intention was not to steal. only to highlight the woeful security"
78Anb TIL about the El Cid Castle, an abandoned castle-like building in Phoenix, Arizona that was supposed to be a bowling alley but it took 20 years to complete and closed a year after it was opened after the owner was arrested for diversion of Medicare funds, that made him go bankrupt.