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TIL There is a wheelchair tennis player who is on a 457-match winningstreak. She won 42 grand slam titles & 5 Paralympic titles and is often mentioned as the most dominant player in professional sports.

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ADVOl TIL rice provides about 20% of all human calories worldwide.
69Ajw TIL Mickey Jones aka Pete from “Home Improvement” was Bob Dylan’s drummer shortly after Dylan went electric in 1966
XEVVX TIL - During a nationwide student protest, National Guard troops fired upon and killed several students at Kent State. Republican Governer, Jim Rhodes had called the protesters "the worst type of people" and "we're going touse every part of the law enforcement agency ... to eradicate the problem"
PlkE TIL: William “Bud” Post won $16.2 million in a lottery, and after his brother tried to kill him, his ex-wife sued him, and he was arrested multiple times, he ended up dying with $1 million in debt.
KXJw TIL Native Americans have been holding a National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving since 1970