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TIL that Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) was the reason why the NCAA banned the slam dunk from 1967-1975.

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x66Xb TIL of Palenquero, a Spanish-based creole spoken in the Colombian town of San Basilio de Palenque that mixes Spanish with Kikongo, a language spoken in the Congo region of Africa. It is the last Spanish-based creole language of its kind in Latin America.
KYNrE TIL it’s routine practice in the US and many other countries for turkeys to have their beaks trimmed without anesthesia, which can cause something similar to “phantom limb pain” that humans experience after amputations.
XeJ8 TIL: That one of Bill Nye the Science Guy’s professors at Cornell was Carl Sagan.
4X0A5 TIL that Judith Barsi, 10 year old child actress known for ‘A Land Before Time’ and other titles, was shot and killed by her own father in a tragic murder-suicide.
jNJDj TIL Adolf Hitler’s two siblings, Alois and Angela, had 8 grandchildren. 3 of them died prematurely (one killed herself, one died in battle, one died in car crash) and the remaining five are still alive today and have chosen never to have children.