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TIL that Jack Sparrow was branded as a “pirate” because rather than selling the slaves on the ship he was Captain of, as he was commanded to, he freed them- and there’s a series that recounts his story.

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Y7rr TIL “Manute Bol is the tallest player in the history of the National Basketball Association. He is also the only player in the NBA to have killed a lion with a spear and to have paid 80 cows for his wife.”
XvX6 TIL Activision proposed a collaboration with Nintendo to create a brand new franchise exclusive to their systems. Nintendo declined. That franchise was Skylanders.
lA41 TIL actor Martin Sheen has been arrested a total of 66 times for protesting and acts of civil disobedience - most recently in 2007 for trespassing at a Nevada nuclear test facility.
Ood9X TIL about “dissimilation.” A linguistic phenomenon where people tend to drop an R if it is in the middle of a word and comes before another syllable that has an R. Ex.“suprise”/“surprise,”/“forward”“forward,” /“catepillar”/“caterpillar,” and “paticular”/“particular.”
9YBMB TIL the medical name for a butt crack is “intergluteal cleft”